This is official from SoftBank's latest press:
"SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp. today announced it has signed an agreement with Apple® to bring the iPhone™ to Japan later this year"
Since SoftBank is a 3G only carrier, this news in fact further confirms the 3G iPhone's existence. As we reported ealier today, the 3G iPhone(or iPhone2) will be probable announced at the Apple WWDC 2008 next mondy.
[via MacRumors]
