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The Keitai Revolution: The Mobile Internet in Japan

In: Innovation Nation

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  • Carin Holroyd

    (Asia Pacific Foundation
    Centre for International Governance Innovation)

  • Ken Coates

    (University of Waterloo)

Abstract

Japan seemed destined to miss out on the opportunities of the dot.com revolution. While much of the industrial world ran head on into the Internet revolution, Japan demurred. The government resisted efforts to taring the Internet to Japan and stalled universities that were trying to link up with this new communications system. From this slow and resistant start in the mid-1990s, Japan emerged a decade later as one of the most Internet-enabled countries on earth. The transition from dot.com backwater to world leader in mobile Internet is one of the best examples of innovation in contemporary Japan. In this instance, in contrast to later initiatives in nanotechnology, photovoltaic energy and the other fields, government initially played a reluctant, even obstructionist role.1 Corporate innovation, particularly through a firm called DoCoMo, pushed the national agenda and helped launch the Keitai (Mobile Internet) revolution.2

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  • Carin Holroyd & Ken Coates, 2007. "The Keitai Revolution: The Mobile Internet in Japan," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Innovation Nation, chapter 3, pages 61-84, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-59945-1_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230599451_4
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