On The Development Of Information Technology In Japan

In the 1990s, Japan's economy stayed cool. Government's public investments and enterprise's equipment investment reduced by a large margin, but under the circumstances that "technology creates and founds a state", it continued strengthening the input of technological development and scientific research. Watching relatively from world, no matter the whole country study fee to develop to be proportion of GDP, enterprises study fee to develop to sales amount, Japan still occupyed the first in the world. The total value of the studying fee to develop not only continued leading Asias , but also second only behind U. S. A. in the world, the second place steadily. The remarkable achievement brought in huge input to research and develop, had developed and established the rich scientific and technological basic and technological advantage for the Japanese IT popularization. Whether Japanese information construction obtained remarkable progress too. Not only is grasping the most advanced key information technology in the world but also had information network with extremely high security , of extremely wide coverage rate. While such new developing information industries as the computer and accessory equipment, information communication equipment, software ,etc. grow vigorously, drive the development of such service trades of traditional information as the communication industry , TV industry , media industry ,etc. too. With the scientific and technological progress, especially based on development of information technology and information industry, Japanese information-based society develops in an all-round way too.Even so, a great deal of indexes of Japan's information construction were still not fully up to expectations: Information communication product per capita owning rate far lag behind such information-based powerful countries as U.S.A., North Europe ,etc.; E-commerce trade , social IT popularization , personnel training and software development were worse, the information-based process of Japan slightly fell behind too. Japan information construction has been a relative tendency that has...