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Selected summaries of articles from Japanese magazines -2-.

Publication: Japan Weekly Monitor
Publication Date: 04-JUN-01 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
TOKYO, May 30 Kyodo

(Summary of ''What Nobody Will Admit: NTT DoCoMo Is the Ringleader of the Recession,''' Shincho 45, May 2001.)

Business journalist Tadashi Mori outlines his unconventional analysis of Japan's economic troubles in ''What Nobody Will Admit: NTT DoCoMo Is the Ringleader of the Recession.''

In 1994 a purchasing system was introduced for mobile phones, which had previously only been available for rental. This, plus the appearance of personal handy phone system (PHS) phones -- the ''poor man's mobile'' -- in 1995, triggered a mobile phone boom. As of the end of March 2001, there were 60.94 million mobile phones and 5.84 million PHS units in Japan, and the combined distribution ratio had reached 52.6%.

The proportion of household spending...

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