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.
Author(s): Ken Coates, Carin Holroyd
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 224
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
