Japanet Sponsors SoftBank Winter Cup 2025

Japanet Holdings Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Sasebo City, Nagasaki Prefecture / President and CEO: Asahito Takada) will be supporting the “SoftBank Winter Cup 2025 2025 78th National High School Basketball Championship Tournament” to be held from Tuesday, December 23, 2025 to Monday, December 29, 2025.

■SponsorshipThoughts on
Japanet values “the joy of living in the moment” in sports where you put your all into every moment! Japanet sponsors many sports such as soccer, basketball, and baseball because of this idea.We want to support the high school students living in the present and contribute to the further development of basketball culture, so we will be sponsoring this tournament for the sixth year.Japanet will do our best to support you so that the representatives of each prefecture can enjoy this sunny stage to the fullest and have a chance to shine.

■Efforts to support the tournament

・Advertisement design featuring Hayato Yamaguchi also included in the tournament program
Hayato Yamaguchi, a member of the professional basketball club Nagasaki Veruca (B.LEAGUE B1), which is also a group company, was appointed to design the advertisement. In the “Japanet Presents SoftBank Winter Cup 2025 Pairing Announcement Special Program,” we also delivered comments to support the players participating in this tournament.

・“Heat Winter Camera” introduces the behind-the-scenes of the hot tournament with a video

The content “#HeatwinterCamera” that we do every year has been powered up. A video of the behind the scenes of the tournament will be distributed on X Instagram. Please take a look at the student-like video that captures the athletes’ thoughts on the tournament, the spirit of each school, and the current state of the athletes this winter.
▶ Posting account:

X: “High school basketball by Japan Basketball Association (JBA) @U18_JBA”,

Instagram: “Japan Basketball Association (JBA) @japan_basketball”

■Initiatives at BS broadcasting station “BS10”

・「BS10” atmen and womenLive broadcast of the semi-finals
The women’s semifinals on Saturday, December 27th and the men’s semifinals on Sunday, December 28th will be broadcast live on BS10.

Broadcast date and time

Women’s semifinal

Saturday, December 27th morning 9:15-1:00 p.m.

(1st game 9:30am/2nd game 11:10am)

Men’s semifinal

December 28th (Sunday) 3:15pm – 7:00pm
(1st game 3:30pm/2nd game 5:10pm)

・Winter Cup SP will be broadcast on “Basketball Spirit” from 7pm on Tuesday, December 30th!

Kenjiro Yamashita (J SOUL BROTHERS III) passionately supports the B League on the program “B League Full Support!” Winter Cup SP will be held at “Basketball Spirit Presented by Basket LIVE”. We bring you the highlights of the SoftBank Winter Cup 2025.