Blackberry for Japan in 2006?

Canada.com has an article out today that cites a UBS analyst saying RIM will launch the Blackberry in Japan within 2006. This seems to confirm rumours we've been hearing for a while about Vodafone Japan bringing the Blackberry here; most recently, we heard that the devices should have been available to pilot users already but had been stalled for an unspecified period by a problem of some kind (whether hardware or software we're not sure). As DoCoMo is supposedly collaborating on the localization and Japanese-language interface (we're taking this version of things with a pinch of salt), it could be that their quality-control is what's slowing things down--recall the recent example of Nokia's NM850iG, which was pulled immediately prior to release and didn't appear again for a month or so.

[Read: RIM believed ready for BlackBerry launch in Japan by end of year]