Delta plans to replace its Portland-Japan service with one daily round-trip flight between John F. Kennedy Airport in New York and Tokyo and one daily round-trip flight between Los Angeles and Nagoya, Japan.
[C4.] Rival Emerges to N.T.T. in Japan Japan Telecom, one of this nation's largest telecommunications companies, plans to offer local phone service, which would put it into direct competition with Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, the former government phone monopoly.
"Given the unique character of the Japanese employment system, there was some initial resistance at the bank and perhaps within society itself," said Yoshinobu Ishigaki, general manager of IBM Japan's service business development division.
In recent months, the company rolled out a number of online ads, offline promotion campaigns and several Japan-only services (Picasa recently started offering QR codes for easy mobile access, for example).
"When it comes to cellular-based services, Japan is advanced," a Yahoo Japan spokesman, Koichi Ichikawa, said.
Google Trends for Websites shows the Japan-focused service attracts more visitors than Bebo on a worldwide basis (about 2.3 million daily, see chart below).
The Japan-based internet services giant just co-led Upstart's newest round with an undisclosed U.S.-based asset manager.
Rakuten, the Japan-based Internet services company, opened its first European research and development center in Paris today.
Internet Initiative Japan CEO: Koichi Suzuki Internet services Japan www.iij.ad.jp Date of inception: 1992 Number of employees: 262 Share of annual revenues exported: Not applicable Growth in market cap by end of next financial year: 50%.
Second, they're working on developing additional accessibility features not yet available, and third they're helping Japan Post with the service layer required to deliver this to the elderly.
