THE JAPANESE-AMERICAN HANDSHAKE:THE INTERNET DIMENSION

Abstract

As the world begins the 21 st century, Japan and the U.S. are positioning for continuous economic success and technological prowess as new Internet technologies, IT advances, broadband developments, large-scale communications infrastructure investments, mobile telecommunications, language technologies, and electronic commerce expansion occurs with government support from both countries. Corporations on both sides of the Pacific will soon be able to penetrate markets once thought culturally and geographically impregnable, utilizing the latest language facilitators, purchasing platforms, and online business strategies. The Internet is freeing office-bound workers in both countries from the drudgery of daily commutes to and from work with evolving and practical new telework arrangements. Undoubtedly, the U.S. and Japan are leading the world into the Internet Age, pushing the frontiers of cyberspace into uncharted territory. Unexpected and new business opportunities abound for those enterprising Japanese and U.S. corporations that intelligently take advantage of the Internet and its treasures.