On 4 Nov 2003 at 15:29, Nick May wrote:
> 1) You are asuming that internet in households is representative
> of internet use. But many people get it at there employers,
> university and so on. Do you have figures for internet USE?
> (Many young Japanese do not spend much time at "home").
>
All the stats are here: http://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/it/
, my interpretation of the figures were that those figures were the percentage of the
population using the Internet, not necessarily using it at home.
> 2) before we can judge whether it is high or not, we need to
> see comparative figures from other countries.
>
The figure you need to compare it to is current statistics as the point originally
raised by Bill was referring to i-mode taking off in other cultures now. Even
compared to current day usage in Japan I would say the figure wasn't high, you are
going from around 1 in 5 people using the Internet to more than 1 in 2 now. The
statistic for % of households using the Internet is even more telling going from
19.1% of households in 1999 to 81.4% in 2002.
Steve Oldmeadow
Received on Wed Nov 5 02:32:49 2003