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 focusing on the current trend of how mobile phones are used by young people. There is a popular trend in Japan to use the mobile phone handset to read information from special barcodes. The current technology is based on 'QR codes' which are a form of 2D barcode that is written out in a square shape instead of a bar shape. The phone handset can scan the QR code using its camera or other input, decode the information, and then take actions based on the type of content. The most popular usage of these QR codes is in advertising. All