IPhone 4S Locked after 1 year

Hi,
I buy an iPhone 4S Neverlock and after 1 year is locked on softbank japan. Why ? i buy it never locked ?

There are no officially unlocked iPhones sold in Japan & none of the Japanese carriers offer official unlocking for iPhones. Thus, there is no way to get any Japanese iPhone officially unlocked. Your phone was hacked to unlock it, & when you updated or restored it, it was re-locked to Softbank.
You purchased a hacked iPhone. It is what it is.

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