Something’s not right here, that’s for sure. Piper Jaffray in the U.S. has estimated that over the weekend, no more than 9,000 iPhones were sold in all of Japan.

However, it is pretty well established that there were more than 1000 people in line for the iPhone on the first day in Omate Sando; that Bic Camera and Yodobashi Camera each had 1,000 units, and both sold out. Right there we’re talking about more than three thousand iPhones.

Then there were roughly 2,700 SoftBank stores around the country selling iPhones. I know the one I went to–one of at least half a dozen in Ikebukuro, not even a very big shop–had at least 70 iPhones, as that was where I was in “line” and they probably sold more than that. But somehow, those 2,700 shops only sold three iPhones apiece between them? Somehow that doesn’t quite add up right.

We’ll have to wait for some slightly more official sales figures to come out, it looks like.

Update: As I thought: Apple has released the official numbers, and they did sell a million iPhones as was intended, not the 425,000 the analysts projected.