A company with a bilingual site, by definition, is progressive and open to new ideas and innovation. And that attitude permeates the corporation as a whole, leading to higher profits. Japanese universities increasingly are establishing their own sites, but what they offer pales by comparison to their American counterparts. A typical US university site provides not just school and course information, it is interactive. Students can register for classes, submit reports to their professors online, and communicate with anyone in the university via email.
Many colleges now offer online instruction.
In 1999 only 36 percent of Japanese elementary and high schools had even one computer connected to the Internet, and nearly half of the country's teachers said they did not know how to use a computer. NHK is the nation's public broadcasting system, supported by both an official budget and private contributions that Japan's families are required to make by law. Only to the private stations. Meanwhile, NHK's Japanese language site essentially is a program and information guide. The last year has seen an improvement in the number and quality of government sites, but that is in comparison to itself.