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
Wild Arms flash-based mobile phone games distributed by Yahoo! Keitai, I-Mode, and EZWeb for the NTT DoCoMo cellphone brand in Japan. First developed in 2006, the download-to-play service includes two "Wild Arms"-themed minigames: a "Tetris"-style puzzle game, and "Wild Arms Kōya no Nichō Kenjū", a shooting game featuring characters and locations from "Wild Arms 3". Additional downloadable features include backgrounds, calendar skins, music, and visual styles based on several "Wild Arms" games. A routine news feed can also be accessed with information from Sony Computer Entertainment. First appearing in the Japanese "Magazine Z" in 2001, "Wild Arms Hana Nusubito", or Wild ARMs: