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These are very misleading statistics. Figures for Japanese Internet usage are grossly inflated due to the inclusion of web-enabled cell phones which are are used by Japanese teenagers to send messages to each other. The number of what we in the U.S. would think of as users - surfers and on-line purchasers - is much, much lower.

For more on this, see: http://www.ojr.org/japan/internet/1043771444.php