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Japan Enters its Next Stage in Mobile and Wireless Evolution

Japan is about to enter its next stage in mobile and wireless evolution. Having been the first to launch 3G services nationally, Japan will...

Shoring Up Information Security in Japan

The Economist Intelligence Unit in their July white paper The means to compete - Benchmarking IT industry competitiveness ranked Japan second in having the strongest environment for...

CosmoCom, supplier of contact center technology, attributes product improvement to Japan partnership

March 2007 – CosmoCom entered the Japanese market in 2002, providing technology for the delivery of contact center software as a service, also called “contact center on-demand.” Meir Yaniv, senior vice president of market development at CosmoCom, spoke with JETRO about...

The Universal Network Protocol, Made in Japan

Today’s efforts to enable interoperability of devices over a network are still limited: UPnP and DPWS are centered on the Microsoft operating systems and work with...

Software companies grow business getting Japan's financial sector online

July 2006 – As more Japanese consumers find it easier and cheaper to trade and conduct transactions online, Japanese banks, securities firms and exchanges are rushing to make more...

Spotlight Interview: Sun Microsystems’ Yuji Uematsu on why their only RFID Design Center is in Japan

July 2006 – Sun Microsystems Inc. operates RFID Test Centers in the U.S., Singapore and South Korea but chose Japan to locate its only RFID Design Center, which opened in Tokyo in...

Semiconductors

June 2006 – The semiconductors market in Japan reached a value of $46.5 billion in 2005, with integrated circuits making up 83.1%, or $38.6 billion, and discrete circuits making up...

Contactless payments on mobile phones encourage credit use in Japan

April 2006 -- The nearly all-in-one mobile phone has yet another feature: contactless payments. In addition to accessing the Internet, checking email, taking pictures, and downloading movies and music, consumers in Japan...

New Jersey software firm breaks into Japanese market after JETRO Business Matching program

February 2006 -- JETRO held its third annual Business Matching Program at the Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies (CEATEC) in Makuhari Messe, Japan in October last year. During the program...

AMD stays ahead with trends starting in Japan

December 2005 -- AMD is a $5.0 billion designer and producer of microprocessors and Flash memory devices and views its Japan operations as key to its...

Consumer Electronics

American companies involved in the consumer electronics industry will find in Japan the essential elements for business success. Japanese consumers tend to adopt new technologies earlier...

New Personal Information Protection Act generates areas for revenue

November 2005 -- Japan’s Personal Information Protection Act that took effect April 1, 2005 is generating sources of revenue for a handful of American data security companies helping...

Strategies for Global Growth

October 2005 -- The development of Asian countries has led businesses in the region to focus their strategies more towards product development and manufacturing. Companies are...

Industry Focus: Ubiquitous Networks

July 2005 -- Wired and wireless technologies are converging to form a society in which anyone can be connected anytime, anywhere. Radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies are widely used to increase...

Spotlight Interview: David "DC" Collier on the Japanese mobile market

July 2005 -- David “DC” Collier is an expert on Japanese mobile technology and founder of Pikkle, a Tokyo-based mobile content consultancy. Prior to founding Pikkle, Collier was a business creator for...