Japan Internet stats
Joi Ito posted a few figures from the Impress 2005 annual Internet White Paper on his website (he notes that he took notes based on a verbal presentation so there could be some mistakes):
- There are 32,244,000 broadband households which is 36.2%.
- There are 70,072,000 Internet users.
- 72.5% of people have heard of blogs, up from 39% last year.
- 25% of women in their teens and 20’s have blogs.
- 9.5% of Internet users use RSS Readers.
- 46.5% of Internet users have decreased spending in physical shops because of online shopping.
- 29.6% of offices have wifi up from 10.7% last year.
- 2.8% of companies have corporate blogs and over 50% express no intention of ever having corporate blogs.
- 5.5% of companies have corporate web pages for mobile phone users.
Just like with any stats, anything can mean everything, but if you are interested in the state of the Internet in Japan, here is the press release summary of the white paper in PDF format. (includes charts / Japanese)
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June 16th, 2005 at 8:02 pm
The figure “25% of women in their teens and 20’s have blogs” is deceptive. These “blogs” are cellphone camera storage sites that come by default with a keitai cellphone. The 25% figure means that 25% of the girls used their IP storage area one or more times.