Moving back and forth from Japan to US

I currently live in Japan (military) and would like to purchase ipad cellular (softbank).  Will I be able to bring it back and forth to US (getting monthly pre-paid data plans) or are they locked (model A1455)?  If so, can I unlock for when I am in the states and re-lock upon return, or once unlocked is it too late?

Normally ipad wifi+cellular are not locked into 2 yr contracts. Here in the US they are not subsidize therefor all ipad mini here are unlocked out of the box and able to use SIM cards from other supporting countries with LTE the 32 goes for 559 + tax but at least your not tied down to a 2yr contract you can go month to month with the verizon model here in the US and when you go back you can purchase a nano SIM card from soft bank and possibly add it to your existing plan you can use it there as well. When they mean "locked" it is tied to the cellular carrier versus "unlocked" means that you can put any nano sim of your choice that you wish to use. They will tell you that the ipad mini wifi+cellulars are locked to the company but in actuality they are not but for you to use the SoftBank network in Japan just change the APN settings and your good to go. But if you are planing to stay there for more than 2 yrs there and fulfill the contract of SoftBank then you might as well get it there but I believe there is a monthly fee to activate each month.The ipad mini I have for verizon I pay an additional 10USD a month to use it on their network. Hopefully this helps you somewhat.

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