ABSTRACT
It is the now ubiquitous keitai (mobile phone) that has pushed Japan into cyberspace overdrive. This Japanese reworking of the failed European WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) with the ability to perform three functions – cell phone, hand-held computer and wireless e-mail receiver – has managed to dramatically alter the demographics of Internet use in Japan. In 2000, estimates put keitai use among the Japanese at 80 per cent, considerably higher among young people.1
