NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan’s largest mobile-phone operator, aims to ship as many as 1 million smart phones in the country this year, helped by the release of a model running Google Inc.’s Android operating system. The company targets capturing half of the country’s market for smart phones, estimated to be between 1.5 million and 2 million units in the 12 months ending Dec. 31, President Ryuji Yamada, 59, said. Tokyo-based Kagawa estimates smart-phones will comprise less than 10 percent of total wireless-handset shipments in the country this year. DoCoMo will begin selling an Android handset made by Taiwan’s HTC Corp. on July 10 to compete with Apple Inc.’s iPhone offered by rival Softbank Corp

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