Silviase/jgov_v1.4_full_ann huggingface dataset:
Figure 6-1-5-2 Telecom carriers' sales breakdown by fixed-line communications and mobile communications

(Note) Calculating excluding sales breakdown "Unknown"

Prepared from "2016 Basic Survey on the Information and Communications Industry," MIC / METI

Figure 6-1-5-3 Telecom carriers' sales breakdown by service category

(Note) Calculating excluding sales breakdown "Unknown"

Prepared from "2016 Basic Survey on the Information and Communications Industry," MIC / METI

Figure 6-1-5-4 Transitions in mobile ARPU in the past five years for 3 domestic mobile operators

(Notes) *Each company’s ARPU is calculated and released based on the respective company’s criteria. The figures were not calculated using the same method.

$ ^{*} $ Due to rounding, the total of individual ARPU figures may not equal the total ARPU figures.

*NTT Docomo includes Smart ARPU, KDDI includes value added ARPU, and SoftBank includes service ARPU.

$ ^{*} $ The ARPU figures for KDDI after FY 2012 were taken from au Communications ARPU under the personal segment. Applied discount amounts were subtracted from the voice ARPU.

$ ^{*} $ SoftBank ARPU figures included communication modules until FY 2011.

*SoftBank Mobile took over SoftBank BB, SoftBank Telecom, and Y!Mobile on April 1, 2015 (name changed to SoftBank on July 1, 2015).
Figure 6-1-7-1 Breakdown of Japan's content market (2015)

(Source) "Survey on the Production and Distribution of Media Content," Institute for Information and Communications Policy, MIC

Figure 6-1-7-2 Transitions in Japan's content market size (by content segment)

(Source) “Survey on the Production and Distribution of Media Content,” Institute for Information and Communications Policy, MIC

Figure 6-1-7-3 Breakdown of the online content market (2015)

(Source) "Survey on the Production and Distribution of Media Content," Institute for Information and Communications Policy, MIC

tent market, the text-based content segment, 34.1 percent, and the audio-based content segment, 10.2 percent. (Figure 6-1-7-3).

The online content market has been growing steadily since 2011. The market by content segment shows that the video content segment which more than doubled from 2011 to 2015 in particular due to the hot game software portion increase, has been driving the online content's market expansion (Figure 6-1-7-4).

#### ● The 2016 mobile content industry’s market increased 14.5 percent from the previous year to 5.0619 trillion yen

The Japanese mobile content industry’s market, $ ^{39} $ which
is made up of the mobile content market $ ^{40} $ and the mobile commerce market, continued to expand in 2016, reaching 5.0619 trillion yen (14.5 percent increase year-on-year), due to the growth and proliferation of smartphones and tablets. By individual segments, the mobile content market reached 1.8757 trillion yen (up 20.0 percent) and the mobile commerce market reached 3.1862 trillion yen (up 11.4 percent) (Figure 6-1-7-5).

## (3) Trends in the broadcast content market

### ● Export value of Japanese broadcast content was 28.85 billion yen in FY 2015

The export value of Japanese broadcast content in FY 2015 was 28.85 billion yen. Note that from FY 2010 onward, Internet distribution rights, video and DVD rights, format and restaging rights, merchandising rights, and similar rights, in addition to program broadcast rights, have been included in the export value of broadcast content (Figure 6-1-7-6). The traditional method of exporting broadcast content had been to sell the program broadcast rights. But today, methods have diversified, so that revenue streams other than program broadcast rights account for more than half of all revenue.

● Cartoons and animations account for over 70 percent of export value by program category, followed by dramatic programs and variety shows, and Asia accounts for more than 50 percent of exports, followed by North America and Europe

Looking at the broadcast content export value by program category finds cartoons and animations account for 76.6 percent of total, variety shows, 10.8 percent, and dramatic programs, 10.0 percent, followed by documentaries and sports programs (Figure 6-1-7-7). The largest export market for broadcast content was Asia, at 56.4 percent of the total, followed by North America at 27.6 percent, Europe at 12.0 percent, and South and Central America. Diverse export destinations for Japanese broadcast content are developing, particularly in Asia.

Figure 6-1-7-4 Transitions in the online content market size (by content segment)

(Source) "Survey on the Production and Distribution of Media Content," Institute for Information and Communications Policy, MIC

Figure 6-1-7-5 Mobile content industry market size

(Source) "Study Report on Technical Factors and Systems Pertaining to Open Platforms Promoting Mobile Content Business," MIC
Figure 6-1-7-6 Export value of Japanese broadcast content

(Notes) *Export value of broadcast content: total export value of program broadcast rights, Internet distribution rights, video and DVD rights, format and restaging rights, merchandising rights, and similar rights.

$ ^{*} $ From FY 2010 onward, the export value from other revenue streams has been included along with program broadcast rights in the export value of broadcast content. Figures prior to FY 2010 are the export value for program broadcast rights only.

Source: "Survey on the State of Overseas Expansion of Broadcast Content (FY 2013, 2014, 2015)," Institute for Information and Communications Policy, MIC

Figure 6-1-7-7 Export value of Japanese broadcast content by program category

Export value of broadcast content (by program category) Export value of program broadcast rights (by program category)

(Source) "Survey on the State of Overseas Expansion of Broadcast Content (FY 2015)," Institute for Information and Communications Policy, MIC

## Section 2 ICT Service Usage Trends

### 1. Internet usage trends

## (1) State of ICT device proliferation

a. State of major ICT device proliferation (households)

● Ownership gap between smartphones and computers is closing to just 1.2 percentage points

The household ICT device penetration rate of 2016 was 94.7 percent for mobile terminals $ ^{41} $ and 73.0 percent for computers. The penetration rate for smartphones, which are included in the mobile terminals category, has remained flat to 71.8 percent (down 0.2 percentage points from a year earlier), reducing the ownership gap with computers from 4.8 percentage points to just 1.2 percentage points, due to the decline of computer penetration rate (Figure 6-2-1-1).

## (2) State of Internet proliferation

a. State of Internet usage

● Both the number of Internet users and the Internet population penetration rate rose

The number of Internet users $ ^{42} $ of 2016 was 100.84 million, an increase of 380,000 from 2015. The Internet penetration rate as a percent of the general population was 83.5 percent (up 0.5 points) (Figure 6-2-1-2). Those using computers to access the Internet accounted for 58.6 percent (up 1.8 points) of all Internet users, the largest portion, followed by 57.9 percent (up 3.6 points) for smartphones and 23.6 percent (up 5.3 points) for tablets (Figure 6-2-1-3).
Figure 6-2-1-1 Transitions in household ownership rates for ICT devices

0	2007
(n=3,640)	2008
(n=4,515)	2009
(n=4,547)	2010
(n=22,271)	2011
(n=16,530)	2012
(n=20,418)	2013
(n=15,599)	2014
(n=16,529)	2015
(n=14,765)	2016
(year)
(n=17,040)
Fixed-line telephones	90.7	90.9	91.2	85.8	83.8	79.3	79.1	75.7	75.6	72.2
FAX	55.4	53.5	57.1	43.8	45.0	41.5	46.4	41.8	42.0	38.1
Mobile terminals	95.0	95.6	96.3	93.2	94.5	94.5	94.8	94.6	95.8	94.7
Smartphones	—	—	—	9.7	29.3	49.5	62.6	64.2	72.0	71.8
Computers	85.0	85.9	87.2	83.4	77.4	75.8	81.7	78.0	76.8	73.0
Tablets	—	—	—	7.2	8.5	15.3	21.9	26.3	33.3	34.4
Wearable devices	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.5	0.9	1.1
Home game consoles with Internet connectivity	15.2	20.8	25.9	23.3	24.5	29.5	38.3	33.0	33.7	31.4
Portable music players with Internet connectivity	19.1	22.0	27.3	17.0	20.1	21.4	23.8	18.4	17.3	15.3
Other appliances (information appliances) with Internet connectivity	4.3	5.5	7.6	3.5	6.2	12.7	8.8	7.6	8.1	9.0

(Source) "Communications Usage Trend Survey," MIC

Figure 6-2-1-2 Transitions in the number of Internet users and the penetration rate among the general population

### b. Purposes of using the Internet

● “Sending and receiving emails” was the most common purpose of using the Internet

(Source) "Communications Usage Trend Survey," MIC

Among all age groups, the most common purpose of using the Internet was “sending and receiving emails.” Viewing the results by age group finds that larger num-
Figure 6-2-1-3 Internet usage by device

(Note) Figures indicate the percentage of people who accessed the Internet using the corresponding device during the past one year.

(Source) "Communications Usage Trend Survey," MIC

ber of users in all age groups use the Internet for “sending and receiving emails,” the number of users varies by age groups for “using social media,” and “using video posting / sharing sites” (Figure 6-2-1-4).

## (3) Challenges for safe, secure Internet usage

a. Matters of concern with Internet usage and problems with ICT networks

● Individuals are concerned about personal information, and enterprises are concerned about personnel shortage

The percentage of individuals who feel insecure with the Internet which includes respondents of both “insecure” and “somewhat feel insecure” reached 61.6%, some 60% feel insecure (Figure 6-2-1-5). Among households with concerns about using the Internet, 87.8 percent cited “personal information and internet access histories will be disclosed or exposed externally without permission” as a concern. This was followed, in order, by “computer virus infections” (67.4 percent) and “False billing and other types of Internet fraud” (51.6 percent) (Figure 6-2-1-6).

Among enterprises, 48.8 percent, the highest response rate, mentioned “concern about virus infections” as a problem when using the Internet, internal LANs, or other networks, indicating heightened security concerns among enterprises (Figure 6-2-1-7).

### b. Information security measures

● Almost 70 percent of households and almost all of enterprises have implemented some form of information security measures

Looking at the state of information security measures taken by households that use the Internet finds that 67.7 percent of households have taken some form of information security measures. The leading security measures were “install or update security software” (47.7 percent) and “sign up for or renew a security service” (24.6 percent) (Figure 6-2-1-8).

Looking at the state of information security measures implemented by enterprises that use ICT networks finds that 98.4 percent of enterprises have implemented some form of information security measures, almost all the enterprises. The leading security measure was “install anti-virus programs on computers and other devices (operating systems, software, etc.),” which is done by 88.2 percent of enterprises. This was followed, in order,

Figure 6-2-1-4 Applications / purposes of using the Internet by age group

(Source) "Communications Usage Trend Survey," MIC
Figure 6-2-1-5 Percentage to feel insecurity with Internet usage at individuals (multiple answers permitted)

(Source) "Communications Usage Trend Survey," MIC

Figure 6-2-1-6 Matters of concern with Internet usage of individuals

(Source) "Communications Usage Trend Survey," MIC

Figure 6-2-1-7 Problems with Internet and intranet LAN usage at enterprises (multiple answers permitted)

(Source) "Communications Usage Trend Survey," MIC

Figure 6-2-1-8 Implementation of information security measures at households (multiple answers permitted)
by “install anti-virus programs on servers” (66.8 percent) and “control access with IDs and passwords” (55.3 percent) (Figure 6-2-1-9).

### c. Personal information protection measures

## ● Nearly 90 percent of all enterprises have implemented personal information protection measures

The percentage of enterprises that have implemented some form of personal information protection measures was 86.0 percent. The most cited protection measure, given by 49.5 percent of enterprises, was “enhance internal training” followed, in order, by “appoint a personal information protection and management officer” (47.8 percent) (Figure 6-2-1-10).

## (4) Cloud service usage trends of enterprises

### a. State of cloud service usage

## The percentage of enterprises using cloud services rose from 2015

Of enterprise respondents to the survey, 46.9 percent said they had used cloud services either partially or extensively, up 2.3 percentage points from 44.6 percent at 2015 (Figure 6-2-1-11).

### b. Breakdown of cloud service usage

## The most frequently used cloud service is "email"

The most frequently used cloud service is “email,” cited by 51.7 percent of respondents, followed, in order, by 50.7 percent for “file storage and data sharing” and 46.7 percent for “server usage” (Figure 6-2-1-12).

Figure 6-2-1-9 Implementation of information security measures at enterprises (multiple answers permitted)

(Source) "Communications Usage Trend Survey," MIC

Figure 6-2-1-10 Implementation of personal information protection measures at enterprises (multiple answers permitted)
Figure 6-2-1-11 State of cloud service usage

(Source) "Communications Usage Trend Survey," MIC

Figure 6-2-1-12 Breakdown of cloud service usage

(Source) “Communications Usage Trend Survey,” MIC

Figure 6-2-1-13 Reasons for introducing cloud services

(Source) “Communications Usage Trend Survey,” MIC
Figure 6-2-2-2 Transitions in broadband service subscriptions

Prepared from "Announcement of Quarterly Data on Telecommunication Service Contracts and Market Shares (4Q of FY 2016 (March 31, 2017))," MIC

Figure 6-2-2-3 Transitions in mobile phone subscriptions

*(Note) After adjusting for internal group transactions refers the adjustments made to count 1 mobile phone device as 1 contract and not 2 contracts so as not to diverge from the actual state of affairs, when an MNO receives mobile phone or BWA services as an MVNO from another MNO in the same group and provides these services together with its services to 1 mobile phone device.

$ ^{*} $ The figures in parenthesis are the figures after adjustment within intragroup related to the number of mobile phone subscriptions.

*Figures of the past years are different from those in the last year’s publication due to amendments by the target enterprises.

Prepared from "Announcement of Quarterly Data on Telecommunication Service Contracts and Market Shares (4Q of FY 2016 (March 31, 2017))," MIC

Figure 6-2-2-4 Transitions in carrier shares in mobile communication subscriptions (after adjusting for internal group transactions)

KDDI Group share includes KDDI, Okinawa Cellular, and UQ Communications; SoftBank Group share includes SoftBank, Y!Mobile, and Wireless City Planning.

Prepared from "Announcement of Quarterly Data on Telecommunication Service Contracts and Market Shares (4Q of FY 2016 (March 31, 2017))," MIC

phones, PHS handsets, and BWA) continue to increase, reaching 15.86 million (an increase of 25.0 percent from the previous year) at the end of FY 2016 (Figure 6-2-2-5)

## (2) State of telecommunication usage

### a. Traffic conditions

(i) Internet traffic

● Total download traffic by broadband service subscribers in Japan reached an average of 8.3 Tbps during November 2016, 52.2 percent increase from the same month of a year ago

(a) Transitions in traffic by broadband subscribers

Traffic by ISP $ ^{547} $ broadband service subscribers continues to grow, with download traffic (A1 OUT) reaching a monthly average of 3396.6 Gbps in November 2016 (45.4 percent increase from the same month a year ago). Download traffic (A1 OUT) widened its gap with upload traffic (A1 IN: 602.5 Gbps), from 5.2 times last fiscal year to 5.6 times. Thus, most traffic is download traffic (Figure 6-2-2-6).
$ ^{*} $ A1 includes the following types of traffic:

• Some traffic on public wireless LAN services from some ISP carriers

• Some traffic on femtocell services from some mobile communication carriers

$ ^{*} $ Clarified that from November 2016, traffic by CDN cache and traffic by customer ISPs connecting with cooperating ISPs which provide transit are handled as A2.

$ ^{*} $ B2 includes traffic exchanged via the following:

• private peering with domestic ISPs

• transit provided by domestic ISPs

• public peering at other domestic IXs than major domestic IXs

$ ^{*} $ B3 includes traffic exchanged via the following; however, clarified that from November 2016, among the traffic, the traffic at domestic connection points are handled as B2.

• private peering with overseas ISPs

• transit provided by overseas ISPs

• traffic exchanged via public peering at overseas IXs.

Prepared from "Announcement Japan's Internet Traffic Tabulations and Estimates for November 2016," MIC

Figure 6-2-2-7 Transitions in the monthly average mobile communication traffic in Japan

Tabulated Month	June 2015	September 2015	December 2015	March 2016	June 2016	September 2016	December 2016	March 2017
Average monthly traffic	up	down	total	up	down	total	up	down	total	up	down	total	up	down	total	up	down	total	up	down	total	up	down	total
Average (Gbps)	141.1	891.2	1032.3	154.6	1027.1	1181.6	169.1	1047.9	1216.9	184.5	1144.1	1328.7	196.7	1227.9	1424.6	217.5	1345.0	1562.5	225.0	1411.6	1636.6	249.0	1566.6	1815.6

Prepared from "Information and Communications Statistics Database," MIC

### 3. State of broadcasting service provision and usage

● Subscriptions to NHK terrestrial, NHK-BS, WOWOW, 110° East CS, and cable TV services in FY 2016 increased from the previous year

Subscriptions to all broadcasting services, except 124/128° East CS broadcasts, increased in FY 2016 (Figure 6-2-3-1).
Figure 6-2-3-1 Subscribers to broadcasting services

(Notes) NHK terrestrial subscribers are the number of all NHK subscription contracts.

NHK-BS subscribers are the number of NHK satellite contracts.

WOWOW subscribers are the number of WOWOW contracts.

CS digital and $ 110^{\circ} $ CS subscribers are the number of Sky PerfecTV contracts.

Cable TV subscribing households are the number of subscribing households to business enterprises providing independent broadcasting services with facilities licensed under the former licensing scheme, until FY 2010, and to registered business enterprises with wired telecommunication facilities providing independent broadcasting services, from FY 2011 on. (Both exclude broadcasts using IP multicasts.)

Prepared using materials from Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association, materials from Japan Cable Laboratories, materials from NHK, and "State of Satellite Broadcasting" and "State of Cable Television" from MIC

### 4. Promoting ICT applications in government services

## (1) Promoting e-government

● The online usage rate increased for procedures handled by national administrative bodies

The usage rate of applications, notifications, and other national administrative procedures filed online $ ^{49} $ versus all applications, notifications, and procedures filed was 47.3 percent (261,316,784 procedures were filed online, an increase of 1.9 percentage points from the previous fiscal year). The online usage rate of the improvement promotion procedures $ ^{50} $ frequently used by citizens and enterprises was 43.3 percent (174,681,859 procedures were filed online, an increase of 2.1 percentage points from the previous fiscal year) (Figure 6-2-4-1).

## (2) Promoting ICT applications in local governments

● The usage rate of local government procedures selected for online-usage promotion increased over the previous fiscal year

The online usage rate of local government administrative procedures $ ^{51} $ was 49.1 percent in FY 2015 (Figure 6-2-4-2).

Figure 6-2-4-1 Transitions in the online usage of applications, notifications, and procedures handled by national administrative bodies

fiscal year	All application, notification, and other procedure filings	Filings done online	Online usage rate [%]
Improvement promotion procedures	Improvement promotion procedures	Improvement promotion procedures
2015	552,359,761	403,222,027	261,316,784	174,681,859	47.3	43.3
2014	497,521,456	394,918,846	226,076,760	162,577,184	45.4	41.2
(Priority procedures)	(Priority procedures)	(Priority procedures)
2013	475,409,156	432,579,446	209,558,511	199,656,173	44.1	46.2
2012	458,496,901	421,297,165	188,960,305	181,479,301	41.2	43.1

(Source) Prepared from "State of Online Administrative Procedures in FY 2015," MIC press materials
Figure 6-2-4-2 Transitions in the usage of local government procedures selected for online-usage promotion

fiscal year	Total procedure filings for the year	Filings done online	Online usage rate [%]
2011	337,590,000	135,031,153	40.0
2012	349,000,000	148,496,598	42.6
2013	367,327,000	165,922,189	45.2
2014	368,733,000	173,807,766	47.1
2015	384,473,000	188,831,889	49.1

(Note) The total yearly filings are an estimate for the entire country calculated based on the total number of filings and the populations in the jurisdictions of local governments that had already placed the targeted procedures online.

(Source) "State of Online Administrative Procedures in FY 2015," MIC

## Section 3 Radio Spectrum Usage Trends

### 1. State of radio spectrum usage and number of radio stations

## (1) Radio stations

## The number of radio stations in Japan has increased steadily since 2006

The number of radio stations (excluding PHS and wireless LAN handsets and other radio stations for which no license is required) at the end of FY 2016 increased by 8.8 percent from a year earlier to 217.35 million, including 214.57 million mobile phones and other land mobile stations, a jump of 8.9 percent. Mobile phones and other mobile land stations accounted for a huge 98.7 percent of all radio stations. The number of convenience stations climbed by 6.7 percent to 1.12 million (Figure 6-3-1-1).

Figure 6-3-1-1 Transitions in the number of radio stations

(※1) "Land mobile station" refers to a radio station that is operated either while in motion on land or while stationary in an unspecified location (such as mobile phones).

(※2) “Convenience station” refers to a radio station used for simple radio communications.