One of each of these is held every year, with SCIS in January or February and WCIS in July or August. Lectures at both SCIS and WCIS meetings are almost all in Japanese. Deadline for registration was Feb. 28. There were demonstrations of cryptographic products at Asiacrypt '92, both hardware and software. It appears that the civilian market in Japan for cryptographic products is still undeveloped compared to those in Europe or North America.
Fewer products are available, and market demand is small so far.
However, sales do not appear to be substantial yet. The companies demonstrating their products included most of the large integrated electronics companies, and they appear to be committed to work in this area, as can be seen by the number of people they have working in it. There were no small companies represented that are so common in Europe and North America, consisting of a few people, and often started by a college professor. Complete ATIP reports on Asian Science and Technology go to subscribers and collaborating organizations by direct distribution, or via electronic access. These contain text and often, charts, graphs and pictures.