Mobile phone industry in Japan other email services have also introduced "emoji" that can be sent and received from mobile handsets as well as computers. Mobile phone industry in Japan The Japanese mobile phone industry is one of the most advanced in the world. As of July 31, 2013 there were 139,180,300 mobile phones in use in Japan. This is 110 percent of Japan's total population according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. In Japanese, are often referred to as simply or for short. There are four cellular service operators in Japan. Willcom is the last PHS Personal Handy-phone System service operator. DoCoMo
Japanese mobile phone culture to or limited to Japan, lead to the term "Galápagos syndrome", as these resulting phones were dominant in the island nation of Japan, but unsuccessful abroad. This has since led to the term to refer to Japanese feature phones, by contrast with newer smart phones. , the Japanese mobile phone market is broadly divided into a high-end, consisting of smart phones (, abbreviated as or ), mid-range, consisting of feature phones ("garakei"), and a low-end, consisting of Personal Handy-phone System (PHS, or , from ). There is some overlap of market segments between low-end smart phones and high-end feature phones,