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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Once seen as a passing fad, the cellphone novel, or ketai novel, has wormed its way into the heart of Japanese popular culture. ... the mobile phone is Japan's most ubiquitous accessory.

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 ...

"The arrival of the Apple I-phone was really significant for my business, because it suddenly meant that the rest of the world had caught up with Japanese mobile phone technology. Japanese otaku ...

It may be surprising how many emoji there are relating to Japan. This collection gathers dozens together, which can act as an introduction to the country’s culture.

But in Japan, which has always had its own unique smartphone culture, the change from "gara-kei" flip ... 10 things foreigners in Japan notice about Japanese phone culture. Mar. 18, 2016 06:47 am JST ...