This information is so useful that you can make much use of them to develop your Internet business in Japan. The current population of Japan is about 120,000,000. About 20 percent of them have used the Internet as of the year of 1999. The Internet recently has increasingly been used by individual users. Male users mostly purchase articles related to computer.
Female users are small purchasers.
The articles which they would like to purchase in future occupy higher percentage than currently available articles. Therefore, it is supposed that the use of online shopping will further increase. For the connection mode, unfixed- speed leased line at lower price has increased its users. Two third of the whole Japanese industries have already registered their own domain name. Individual users would most like to purchase commodities related to computer.