Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Coates, Ken
• Holroyd, Carin

Titel

Japan and the Internet Revolution

Ort / Verlag

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK

Erscheinungsjahr

2003

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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