Japan and the Internet Revolution

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Japan and the Internet Revolution challenges the portrait of Japan as a technologically slow-moving nation, lacking in creativity and entrepreneurial spirit. Overcoming the substantial barriers erected by the Japanese government to the introduction of the Internet, promoters and entrepreneurs managed to create a flexible and dynamic Internet society. From a slow start, Japan has emerged as the global leader in the mobile Internet, the host of arguably the strongest nation-specific web-presence in the world, and a country determined to remain near the forefront of the digital revolution. Cover......Page 2 Contents......Page 9 List of Tables......Page 10 Preface......Page 11 Acknowledgements......Page 15 Introduction: The Tip of the Digital Iceberg......Page 17 1 Uneasy Steps: Japan and the Development of the Digital Society......Page 33 2 Japan.com: Government and the Promise of the Internet Society......Page 57 3 The Keitai Revolution: Mobile Commerce in Japan......Page 84 4 Japanese E-Commerce......Page 106 5 The Digital Face of Japan: National Dimensions of the Internet Revolution......Page 140 6 Reflections on a Networked Nation: Japan and the Future of the Digital Revolution......Page 165 Notes......Page 190 Select Bibliography......Page 206 Index......Page 210