References
Introduction
0.1 Sachs, Jeffrey D. Readiness for the Networked World, A Guide for Developing Countries. Information Technologies Group, Center for International Development at Harvard University. http://www.readinessguide.org
Snapshot of Japan
Network Access
Networked Learning
3.1 JapanGuide.com - Living In Japan - Education. 2002. Accessed February 7,2003. http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2150.html
3.2 CEC Outline and Description of Activities - Research and Development Activities. Accessed February 13, 2003. http://www.cec.or.jp
3.3 Bill Gates Keynotes Opening of New School in Tokyo to Support Japan's Schools E-Policy. 2003. Accessed March 3, 2003. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2003/Feb03/02-24broadband.asp
3.4 MEXT - Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology - Higher Education. Accessed February 21, 2003. http://www.mext.go.jp/english/org/formal/05e.htm
3.5 Resources on Internet and Environmental Education in Japan. Accessed February 7, 2003. http://www.gdrc.org/uem/ee/eejp-links.html
3.6 Test Time for Universities. 2003. Accessed February 18, 2003. http://www.japaninc.net/print.php?articleID=987
3.7 Colleges of Technology in Japan. Accessed March 3, 2003. http://www2.denshi.numazu-ct.ac.jp/koho/kousen/kousen.pdf
3.8 ICT for Teacher Training Portal. 2001. Accessed March 3, 2003. http://www.unescobkk.org/ips/ict/ict.htm
3.9 Information and Communications in Japan. Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications, Japan. White Paper 2002.
Networked Society
4.1 Half of population use Internet. Mainichi Daily News. March 8, 2003. http://www12.mainichi.co.jp/news/mdn/search-news/873572/internet-0-6.html
4.2 The 2001 Whitepaper on Telecommunications. Differences in the use of the Internet. Accessed February 24, 2003. http://www.dosite.jp/e/do/j-state_net.html
4.3 Internet Users in Japan Total 32.6 Million (End of February 2001). AMI News Release. June 25, 2001. Number 9. Accessed February 24, 2003. http://www.ami.co.jp
4.4 Nielsen//NetRatings. Average Web Usage. Month of December, 2002, Japan. Accessed February 20, 2003. http://www.netratings.co.jp/US/monthly_Usage.htm
4.5 The Penetration ratio of Internet Usage at Home is 30.5% in Japan. Accessed February 20, 2003. http://www.videor.co.jp/eng/report/internet/ratio.html
4.6 !Japan Registry Service. Accessed March 8, 2003. http://jprs.jp/en
4.7 The World's Second Largest Advertising Market. The Asahi Shimbun. Accessed March 8, 2003. http://adv.asahi.com/english/market/advertising.html
4.8 Results of FRI's Second Internet User Survey- Branding is key to dominance in search engine sector- Online stores don't measure up. 1998. Accessed February 20, 2003. http://www.fri.fujitsu.com/hypertext/fri/cyber/research2/index-e.html
4.9 Pastore, Michael. Web Pages by Language. CyberAtlas. July 5, 2000. Accessed March 9, 2003. http://cyberatlas.internet.com/big_picture/demographics/print/0,,5901_408521,00.html
4.10 Cyber Life Observations. Study on the Japanese Consumer's Use of Information and Telecommunications Equipment and Services [Overview of the Results of the 12th Survey]. 2002. Accessed March 8, 2003. http://www.nri.co.jp/english/news/2002/021120/021120.pdf
4.11 Japan E-Learning. Feel Issue 02. June 2002. Accessed March 9, 2003. http://www.ecc.org.sg/cocoon/ecc/website/services/newsletter/feel02/article11.pdf
4.12 Cyber Life Observations, Survey of Trends Among Consumers Using Information and Telecommunications. Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. January 2001. Accessed February 20, 2003. http://www.nri.co.jp/english/news/2001/010131/010131.pdf
4.13 Table 1.Ratio of Households Possessing Information and Communication Appliances (1996 - 2001) http://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/it/index.htm#a
4.14 White Paper on the Internet Use In Japan 2001. Accessed February 20, 2003. http://www.kiko-net.com/Foreigners/White_Paper/White_Paper.php?year=2001
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4.17 Survey on ICT Workplaces (Preliminary Report), January 16, 2002. Accessed March 9, 2003. http://www.meti.go.jp/english/information/data/csurveyICTe.html
4.18 Communications Usage Trend Survey in 2001 Compiled. MPHPT Communications News No. 5. Accessed March 9, 2003. http://www.soumu.go.jp/joho_tsusin/eng/Releases/NewsLetter/Vol13/Vol13_5/Vol13_5.html#3
4.19 Information and Communications in Japan. Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications, Japan. White Paper 2002.
Networked Economy
5.1 http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/it/network/0122summary.html "e-Japan: Summary", January 22, 2001, IT Strategy Headquarters
5.2 http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/it/network/priority-all/index.html "e-Japan Priority Policy Program," March 29, 2001, IT Strategy Headquarters
5.3 http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/it/network/0626_e.html "e-Japan 2002 Program," June 26, 2001, IT Strategy Headquarters
5.4 http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/it/network/0122summary.html "e-Japan: Summary", January 22, 2001, IT Strategy Headquarters
5.5 http://www.meti.go.jp/english/policy/index_other.html "Interpretative Guideline on Electronic Commerce," March 2002, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
5.6 http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/printdoc "Japan's jobless rate hits record high of 5.4% in 2002," LexisNexis Academic, Copyright 2003 Kyodo News Service, January 30, 2003
5.7 http://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/roudou/154.htm "Monthly Results -- January 2003," Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications - Statistics Bureau & Statistics Center, Labor Force Survey, February 28, 2003
5.8 http://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/roudou/zuhyou/15401400.xls "Employed persons by industry occupation," Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications - Statistics Bureau & Statistics Center, Labor Force Survey Statistical Tables, December 2002
5.9 http://80-www.viewswire.com.ezproxy.lib.depaul.edu/index.asp?layout=display_article&doc_id=240572 "Japan Economy: Five Year Forecast," Economist Intelligent Unit - EUI viewswire, February 26, 3003
5.10 http://www.jil.go.jp/bulletin/year/2001/vol40-01/06.htm "Employment Projections for the Period 2000-2010," Vol. 40 - No. 1, Japan Institute of Labor, January 2, 2001
5.11 http://80-www.viewswire.com.ezproxy.lib.depaul.edu/index.asp?layout=display_print&doc_id=199274 "Japan Business: e-readiness ranking," Economist Intelligent Unit - EUI viewswire, July 18, 2002
5.12 http://80-www.viewswire.com.ezproxy.lib.depaul.edu/index.asp?layout=display_article&doc_id=240530 "Japan Business Industry Overview," Economist Intelligent Unit - EUI viewswire, February 26, 2003
5.13 http://www.ebusinessforum.com/index.asp?layout=newdebi&country_id=JP&country=Japan&channelid=6&title=Doing+e-business+in+Japan "Doing ebusiness in Japan," Economist Intelligence Unit - ebusinessforum.com, March 1, 2003
5.14 Ibid.
5.15 Ibid.
5.16 http://www.japaninc.net/print.php?articleID=29 "Building an Electronic Town," J@pan Inc Magazine, September 2001
5.17 http://www.ebusinessforum.com/index.asp?layout=newdebi&country_id=JP&country=Japan&channelid=6&title=Doing+e-business+in+Japan "Doing ebusiness in Japan," Economist Intelligence Unit - ebusinessforum.com, March 1, 2003
5.18 http://www.jetro.go.jp/ec/e/market/jmr/049/3.html "Japanese BtoB E-commerce Case Studies," JETRO, Japanese Market Report, 2000
5.19 http://www.japaninc.net/article.php?articleID=510 "A B2B Exchange For ...Oil," J@pan, Inc Magazine, December 2000
5.20 http://www.ecom.or.jp/ecom_e/latest/ecomjournal_no1/commit_03.html e-Government Subcommittee Report, ECOM Journal No. 1
5.21 http://www.ecom.or.jp/ecom_latest=ecomjournal_no1/commit_03.html, "Trends in B-to-B EC Rates and Projected B-to-B EC Rates by Segment, Ministry of International Trade and Industry and Anderson Consulting
5.22 http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/printdoc "Microsoft's Gates pitches Windows for 'e-Japan' project," LexisNexis Academic, Copyright 2003 Kyodo News Service, Japan Economic Newswire, February 25, 2003
5.23 http://www.ecom.or.jp/ecom_e/report/reportindex.html ECOM e-Government Subcommittee
5.24 http://www.chijihonbu.metro.tokyo.jp/english/index.htm The Official Tokyo Metro Website
5.25 http://www.city.osaka.jp/english/index.html City of Osaka Website
Network Policy
6.1 http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/constitution_and_government_of_japan/fundamental_e.html "Fundamental Structure of the Government of Japan"
6.2 http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/koizumiprofile/1_ideals.html "Profile of Prime Minister Koizumi"
6.3 http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/it/council/establishment_it.html "Establishment of the IT Strategy Headquarters," July 7, 2000
6.4 http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/it/council/basic_it.html "Basic IT Strategy," November 27, 2000
6.5 http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/it/it_basiclaw/it_basiclaw.html "Basic Law on the Formation of an Advanced Information and Telecommunications Network Society," January 6, 2001
6.6 http://www.glocom.ac.jp/proj/jitcpf/teigen-e.html "Policy Recommendations on Japan and International Society in the Age of Information Revolution," August 1998, Center for Global Communications, Int'l University of Japan
6.7 "Network Services: Japan, Operational Management Report," May 21, 2002, DPRO-91927 King-Yew Foong, Gartner Research, Copyright 2002
6.8 http://www.mac.doc.gov/japan/source/menu/dereg/2002-06-25-report_to_leaders.pdf "First Report to the Leaders on the US-Japan Regulatory Reform and Competition Policy Initiative," June 25, 2002, US Department of Commerce - Office of Japan
6.9 http://www.ebusinessforum.com/index.asp?layout=printer_friendly&doc_id=6349 "Japan: Asia's biggest telecoms market could become broadband laggard," ebusinessforum.com, February 6, 2003
6.10 http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/printdoc "NTT East, West to cut spending 14% to 770 bil.yen" LexisNexis Academic, Copyright 2003 Kyodo News Service, Japan Economic Newswire, February 28, 2003
6.11 Ibid.
6.12 http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/printdoc "Japan, US remain apart over deregulation in key areas," LexisNexis Academic, Copyright 2003 Kyodo News Service, Japan Economic Newswire, February 28, 2003
6.13 http://www.jetro.go.jp Japan External Trade Organization
6.14 http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/asia-paci/asean/relation/it.html "Japanese Government's Cooperation to Asia in the Field of Information and Communications Technology," November 2001, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
6.15 http://www.jftc.go/jp/e-page/report/sruvey/2002/summary.pdf "Report of the Study Group on International Affairs of the Anitmonopoly Act and Competition Policy," "Role of Competition Policy in Strengthening Economic Partnership with East Asian Countries," September 24, 2002, The Japan Fair Trade Commission
6.16 http://www.jftc.go.jp/e-page/guideli/011130telecomGL.pdf "Guidelines for Promotion of Competition in the Telecommunications Business Field," November 2001, Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications
6.17 http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/procurement/2001/ch/ch1-3.html "Japan's Government Procurement: Policy and Achievements Annual Report (FY2001 version) Toward Government Procurement Open to the World," Prime Minister of Japan - Website
Offshore Opportunities
7.1 Kimzey, Charles H; Kurokawa, Sam. (Jul/Aug 2002). Technology outsourcing in the U.S. and Japan. Research Technology Management 45, no. 4. p. 36-42.
7.2 Holstein, William J. (Oct 2002). Japan rises again. Chief Executive, no. 182. p. 50-52.
7.3 Miller, Jim. (Jul 2002). Outsourcing outlook. Pharmaceutical Technology North America 26, no. 7. p. 82.
7.4 Alperowicz, Natasha. (Jul 31, 2002). Takeda shutters pharmaceuticals plant; plans to outsource some production. Chemical Week 164, no. 30 p. 27.
7.5 Valigra, Lori. (Aug 26, 1991). Japan's Programmer Crunch. Computerworld, v25n34. p. 62.
7.6 Dyer, Jeffrey H. (Mar 1995). Organizations in cross-cultural perspective - Strategic Industrial Sourcing: The Japanese Advantage. Administrative Science Quarterly v40n1, p.184-187.
7.7 Kimzey, Charles H. (May 1998). Outsourcing Technology for New Product Development: A US-Japan Study of Technology Strategy. Ph.D. thesis, Management of Technology Program, Vanderbilt University.