The full-scale rollout is being handled via Nihon PayPal KK, the joint venture company established last year by PayPal and SoftBank to market and distribute PayPal Here throughout Japan. “We’ve worked hard to be the first to make this type of simple, secure mobile payment solution widely available in Japan,” said Rohan Mahadevan, vice president,…

On Aug. 6, eBay Inc. hosted 300 high school students from the area of Japan affected by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that killed about 20,000 people. The students’ visit was part of a three-week leadership development summer program based at the University of California, Berkeley, that is sponsored by the Japanese company Softbank. Softbank’s…