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Telephones and Communication in Japan are in a highly developed state marked by a great degree of technical expertise and innovative methodologies.

Telephones

Japan has a very high rate of telephone connectivity. In addition to home telephones, cellular phones, personal handy phone systems (PHS) and public phones are extensively used by the Japanese. All major city to city lines are now fiber-optic thus providing high quality and fast connectivity. Cellular phone usage is very pervasive throughout the country and the usage of cell phones as voice, information and text messaging devices has developed what is called a mobile phone culture or "keitai" culture within the country.

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (owned by the government until 1985), NTT Worldwide Telecommunications Corp (Kokusai Denshin Denwa Company), and Nihon Kokusai Tsushin are major power players in the Communication sector.

Broadband and Internet

By June 2005, Japan had 19.7 million broadband lines in place, making it the third largest broadband country in the world after the USA and China. Much of the success of broadband in Japan is owed to the stunning growth in 2003 of ADSL as a broadband technology. Japan had 86,300,000 Internet users as of December 2005, or approximately 67.2% of its population.

T.V. Broadcasting

The Japan Broadcasting Corporation (Nippon Hoso Kyokai-NHK) has dominated broadcasting in Japan since its inception in 1925. Major Television Networks in Japan are TVNET JAPAN, NTV - Nippon Television Network, TBS - Tokyo Broadcasting System, CX - Fuji Television, KTV - Kansai Telecasting, ANB - Asahi National Broadcasting, NBN - Nagoya TV, and TX - Television Tokyo Channel.

Radio Broadcasting

Radio Japan is the international broadcast service of the Japanese national broadcaster NHK. It broadcasts programs in all major languages including Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Bengali, Burmese, Indonesian, Malaysian, Thai, Urdu, Vietnamese and English. Popular radio stations in Japan are, Nippon Hoso, Hokkaido Hoso, Bunka Hoso, TBS, and RKB Mainichi, all broadcasted from Radio (AM station). Major FM channels are J-Wave, Tokyo FM, FM Kyoto, ZIP-FM, and FM Osaka.

Newspapers

Leading Newspapers in Japan are the Mainichi Newspapers, the Yomiuri Shimbun, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun, The Chunichi Shimbun, The Hokkoku Shimbun, Kobe Shimbun, and Shimotsuke Shimbun.

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