How should Japan promote its information technology revolution?
First, it is essential for Japan to recover lost ground in the area of Internet proliferation. Recently, Japan not only lags behind the industrialized countries of North America and Europe, but is also trailing behind some Asian countries.
It is clear that Japan most likely has the lowest level of Internet proliferation among major industrialized countries, and that it cannot even be called a leader in the Asia-Pacific region in this field. We are also lagging behind even when the comparison is limited to Internet usage in the business and administrative sectors.