SoftBank Mobile
Dante Carver (born January 17, 1977 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor working in Japan. He moved to Japan in 2005 and became well known following his appearance in a series of TV commercials for SoftBank Mobile from 2006 in which he first played the Japanese-speaking character (the name being a pun on , the Japanese for "unexpected") and later the older brother of the character played by Aya Ueto as part of the fictional "White family" headed by a white Hokkaido dog.