The Japanese Internet market has a huge and evergrowing audience with over 70 million users. Of these, at least 32 million people are utilising increasingly popular broadband services from their own homes, an increase of over 10 million from the previous year. Now, at least one in three households have broadband access.

According to the Impress 2005 Internet White Paper there has been an enormous increase in the awareness of blogs with 72.5% of users having knowledge of them in 2005 compared to only 39.4% in 2004. Blog usage itself is up from 2.5% in 2004 to 18.4% in 2005. In addition, Internet shopping is becoming more prominent in Japan as 46.5% of users said they believe their shopping in real stores has decreased due to Internet shopping.

Another distinguishing feature of the Japanese market is the growing popularity of mobile phone internet services (such as i-mode and WAP) with over 80 million users.

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