Japan and the Internet Revolution

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction: The Tip of the Digital Iceberg

   • Ken Coates, Carin Holroyd

   Pages 1-16

3. Uneasy Steps: Japan and the Development of the Digital Society

   • Ken Coates, Carin Holroyd

   Pages 17-40

4. Japan.com: Government and the Promise of the Internet Society

   • Ken Coates, Carin Holroyd

   Pages 41-67

5. The Keitai Revolution: Mobile Commerce in Japan

   • Ken Coates, Carin Holroyd

   Pages 68-89

6. Japanese E-Commerce

   • Ken Coates, Carin Holroyd

   Pages 90-123

7. The Digital Face of Japan: National Dimensions of the Internet Revolution

   • Ken Coates, Carin Holroyd

   Pages 124-148

8. Reflections on a Networked Nation: Japan and the Future of the Digital Revolution

   • Ken Coates, Carin Holroyd

   Pages 149-173

9. Back Matter

   Pages 174-202

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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.

• creativity
• development
• Japan
• society
• technology

'This is a book with a mission: to educate people outside Japan in the intricacies of Internet implementation within that country by providing an overview of recent developments...Japan and the Internet Revolution is an interesting read which provides a fascinating and informative discussion of the ways in which the Internet has emerged and then flourished in Japan. I recommend it to anyone interested in the intersections of society, culture and technology, or in developments in contemporary Japan generally. As someone conducting research on the Internet in Japanmyself, I found it a valuable addition to the growing literature on the subject and one which I found engrossing reading.' - Nanette Gottlieb, University of Queensland, Japanese Studies

• College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

  Ken Coates

• College of Commerce, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

  Carin Holroyd

KEN COATES is the Dean and Professor of History, College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan. He has an extensive background in world history, the social impact of information technology, and indigenous rights. He has published two other books with Carin Holroyd.

CARIN HOLROYD is a specialist in international trade, focusing on Japan. She is the author of Government, International Trade and Laissez-Fair Capitalism: Canada, Australia and New Zealand's Relation with Japan. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the College of Commerce, University of Saskatchewan.

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