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Subject: Re: LIFE IN THE SLOW LANE -- Japan

From: David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 05:26:12 -0500

From: izumi@glocom.ac.jp
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 14:38:01 +0900

LIFE IN THE SLOW LANE
was interesting...

but, quite a few Japanese mainstream organization is starting to realize
the significance of Internet.  MPT is installing ministry-wide wireless LAN
now and they are going to connect to the Internet very soon.  They say that
this will allow us to retrive the latest release from Clinton
administration via the Internet as well as send out their own releases to
outside Japan.

NTT is also getting more serious to prepare high-speed computer networking.
Still many senior executives in mainstream organizations are having
difficulty in understanding what Internet really means, that is no[t] THE ALL
japanese, I should say.