In Japan, where experts have had years to study the impact of mobile messaging, a number of observers have concluded that cell-phone culture can enhance independence, cement friendships and expand ...

The mobile phone revolution came early to gadget-crazy Japan, and 80 percent of Japanese now own at least one. There are over 100 million users with advanced third generation handsets.

Cell phones in Japan have ... mobile phones have become essential tools with more than 100 million subscribers. Like many other things Japanese, the nation's cell phone culture has ...

Anthropologist Mizuko Ito studies Japan’s mobile-phone culture and warns against extrapolating from Japan’s tech development. By . Wade Roush archive page; November 9, 2005.

So, what are some of the things that foreign visitors and residents in Japan notice about Japanese smartphone culture? A recent article from Yahoo! Japan listed up 10 of the most common observations ...

Yet Japan's lack of global clout is all the more surprising because its cell phones set the pace in almost every industry innovation: e-mail capabilities in 1999, camera phones in 2000, third ...

The Japanese word for cell phone -- keitai, meaning "something you carry with you" -- provides a hint about its role within Japanese culture.Over time, mobile devices in Japan have come to be ...

Google Inc. is taking aim at Japan's cell phone market, but whether the search giant can win over the nation's notoriously picky consumers is very much an open question. NTT DoCoMo Inc.'s summer ...

Then again, camera phones can enhance the safety of people in trouble.In Yokohama, Japan, an 18-year-old female store clerk used her camera phone to take a photo of a 38-year-old man who was ...