Japan and the Internet Revolution Japan and the Internet Revolution challenges the portrait of Japan as a technologically slow moving nation lacking in creativity and entrepreneurial spirit. Overcoming the substantial barriers erected by the Japanese government to the introduction of the Internet promoters and entrepreneurs managed to create a flexible and dynamic Internet society. From a slow start Japan has emerged as the global leader in the mobile internet the host of arguably the strongest nation specific web presence in the world and a country determined to remain near the forefront of the digital revolution