Report No. 67
Japanese education and the Internet | Interview with Rich Chen of Google | Gloom and Doom Part Trois | Japan Entrepreneur Report to debut | Jerk of the month?

Report No. 66
Japan's most profitable Internet business | Tokyo Mystery Men reveal auction secrets | Real estate data moving to the Internet | New book and newsletter are about you

Report No. 65
Bright and Happy Summer Issue | How to extract money from naked consumers swimming in coffee | How to be successful in Japan | How to evaluate the number of Internet users in Japan | Feedback with style

Report No. 64
Doom and gloom issue | Japan's long, slow decline | Mobile annoyance factor reaches new heights | Meet Mr. Yu | More writing on Japan

Report No. 63
Cat videos won't solve FOMA problems | Master list of Marketing Mistakes | Japanese e-commerce by the numbers | Welcome to the family

Report No. 62
Usability big and small | Motor City Tokyo | You want me to click where? | Usability in action | Internet-enabled cell phone report | Is there an Internet industry?

Report No. 61
Roger Boisvert is greatly missed | Can i-mode go West? | White paper now available: Internet-enabled cell phones | Paka-paka girls in AsiaWeek

Report No. 60
September 11, 2001 | Broadband boom, broadband bust | Japanese M-commerce by the numbers | A fine group of fellows | Last word on Japan's cell phone market

Report No. 59
Baghdad by the Bay | Cell phones as transaction mechanism | Interview with Isaac Levanon | Teens on wireless | Quote of the month

Report No. 58
My first 3G experience | Interview with Hidehiro Inai | Now get hip to 5G! | Keitai and cable cars | Quote of the month

Report No. 57
Tokyo's internet cafes | Books: the good, the bad, and the filtered | Wireless handsets and PCs: Full circle | Keep those trivial communications coming...

Report No. 56
There is no killer content | Sony's Idei speaks truth | DoCoMo moves in on a new market | Tim's new company / JIR starts sixth year

Report No. 55
i-mode's chances in Europe | Paying to get spammed | Credit card is top online payment mechanism | Japanese e-commerce by the numbers | "First-rate source fir criticizing" | Five full years for JIR

Report No. 54
Japan's telecom revolution | T-commerce poised for huge belly flop | Internet-enabled mobile phone user numbers overstated | eBay: big on Asia | Let's meet at Lucent wingding in Florida | They are not us...

Report No. 53
Reference spending huge | Is music really killer content for wireless? | SIPS attain buzzword status but lose momentum | Japanese government allows online gambling | L-mode: just silly, or downright illegal? | New record? $1.3 million online in 60 seconds

Report No. 52
Japanese dotcom newspaper ad sampler | JIR party rocks | Interview with Frank Yu of Web Connection Research | DoCoMo's 3G services: show me the money | Let's do breakfast in Santa Clara 11/29 | Asia Internet Report debuts this week

Report No. 51
Third annual JIR party in Tokyo November 15 | Interview with Wei-Tai Kwok of Dae Interactive | The future of Asia's knowledge economy | NTT's L-mode: Huh? | Bureaucracy in action | Attend our Japan e-business briefings in Silicon Valley 11/28, 11/29 | Japan venture capital shindig in New York 11/14

Report No. 50
It's a woman's world | Quote of the month | Reach more than 40,000 women in Japan | Wireless access still more "phone" than "Net" | Did Bill Gates want to buy Hello Kitty for $5.6 billion? | Work with me on this one...

Report No. 49
Internet booms in Korea; wireless access doesn't | Intriguing i-mode items and the real meaning of WAP | Interview with Ray Tsuchiyama of Tegic | Japanese Internet career opportunities | Dotcom reality check seminar in Tokyo | Web surfing by voice, in France

Report No. 48
Finance follies Part Deux | Japan as venture habitat | Interview with Mike Yoshii | "IT revolution" finally hits Japan? | Japanese Internet career opportunities

Report No. 47
Fun finance facts | Japanese stock market follies | Interview with March Kikumoto of WebEggs | The biggest e-commerce player in Japan | Credit cards rule Japan's online payment sector

Report No. 46
TKAI adds 1,000 people, ten offices | Wireless Internet report purchasers speak out | Japanese e-commerce by the numbers | Fun facts to know and tell about i-mode | Portal deals as ineffective in Japan as in U.S. | Quote of the month

Report No. 45
Cell phone eclipses PC as e-commerce platform | New POCs continue to emerge in Japan | Holiday online sales in Japan | TKAI opens new Japan office | Japan Internet Report starts fifth year | Interested in working with TKAI in the U.S.?

Report No. 44
The Internet and personal responsibility in Japan | Japan's culture of excessive dependence | Interview with Mike Allen of ING Barings | Rest and relaxation for the holidays

Report No. 43
Online focus groups are powerful magic | My latest kick: Online finance | Interview with Ken Lunde of Adobe | Book of the month | Fixed-rate access roundup | Game players no joke | Japan Internet Report schmoozers rock Aoyama Diamond Hall

Report No. 42
Digital content selling in Japan | Interview with SunBridge President Allen Miner | Japanese Web grocer debuts | Career hint for programmers | Party in Tokyo October 20 | FAQ for Schmooze & Booze Spectacular

Report No. 41
Japanese train stations as POCs | Private sector does government's job | Japanese e-commerce by the numbers | Clicks and mortar | TSE, brokers to go way of dinosaurs? | Good times in Palo Alto - see you in Seattle | Our last 44,640 minutes...

Report No. 40
Japan gets hip to venture model | $1.4 billion e-commerce figure for Japan makes sense | What's the difference between e-tailing and mail order? | Conbini wars: 7-Eleven Japan vs. Lawson | Impressions from the mobile show | Palo Alto, Seattle seminars on Japan and Internet

Report No. 39
Convenience stores may hold key to online sales | Bit Valley: Japan's Silicon Alley? | Interview with Sharon Barnett of Prestige International | Industry Briefs | Our favorite monopoly proves us spectacularly wrong | For those who still doubt that products sell online in Japan...

Report No. 38
Online investing, banking activity soaring in Japan | Japanese version of Amazon.com to emerge? | Interview with Tokyo-based Finance Mystery Guest | Are you reading this? | Industry Briefs | Cell phones rule: FINIS

Report No. 37
Looks like 1999 is "international" year for U.S. companies | Japan Internet Report now in fourth year | SPECIAL REPORT: Mobile phone as 'Net platform | Finance folks: Note this quote | Industry Briefs | Why are we not surprised? | Department of Redundancy Department | Note to readers requesting information | Confession and redemption

Report No. 36
Japanese e-commerce, by the numbers | Internet used by 11% of households in Japan | Interview with Mayumi Nakamura of PSP, Inc. | Industry briefs | Are cell phones, PDAs taking over Japan's Internet world? | Leverage that monopoly!

Report No. 35
Cell phone ads to replace e-mail | More on iMac | Industry Briefs | My Favorite Monopoly in the kitchen

Report No. 34
Internet in the home | iMac as furniture | Cell phone as fashion statement: Part Deux | Industry Briefs | NTT wants to rule world of Japanese Internet | Wall Street Journal covers TKAI

Report No. 33
The portable future | The mobile phone as fashion accessory | Developing for the portable future | What I did on the Internet in 1998 | Ashisuto director on Net businesses in Japan | To commerce or not in Japan? Part Trois/Finale | Inter@active Week covers TKAI, Japan, Asian Tigers | URL ubiquity in Japan | To all JIR subscribers

Report No. 32
Vending machines, convenience stores taking over Japan | To commerce or not to commerce? Part Deux | Making the Web Easier to Surf: Part Trois | Interview with Gary Rieschel of Softbank Technology Ventures | Industry Briefs | Reader survey results | JIR schmoozers rock Kosai Kaikan | Comdex '98 report

Report No. 31
Will Japan's PC makers move to Internet sales model? | Watch out, WebTV: Here comes the Japanese government... | To commerce or not to commerce? | Nissan to launch used car sales online | Industry Briefs | Essay of the Month | Reader survey results | Mecklermedia covers TKAI | JIR Super Rock Jam Tokyo '98

Report No. 30
Is it really news? | Interview with John Stern of Japan Market Engineering | Book of the Month | Japanese packaging issues & more | Heard on the grapevine | What do you like? | This month we welcome...

Report No. 29
Special: Breaking into Japan | Roundtable discussion with U.S. Internet technology firms: Whistle Communications, Photo Access, Mercantec | Deregulating Japan's Soul | Book of the Month No and Book of the Month Yes

Report No. 28
Careers on-the-line in Japan | Employment in Japan | Interview with Terrie Lloyd of LINC Media | Industry Briefs | Food for thought about the Japan market | Book of the Month | eCOMMERCE @lert covers Japan

Report No. 27
Thematic unity | International mail order and the Internet | Interview with Matt McCullough of JCX International | Selling to Japan without spending any money? | Fun facts to know and tell about the Japan market | Number of Internet users in Japan | Book of the Month | Advice from finance sector professional sought

Report No. 26
Will barcode integration make surfers of couch potatoes? | Bleak future in Japan for electronic money | Japan's telecom market in perspective | Interview with Tokyo Mystery Guest | Industry briefs | Fun facts to know and tell about the Japan market | More back issues of JIR now on line

Report No. 25
Branding important, says second FRI survey | Online stores don't measure up | Interview with Chris Hinkle of Dell Japan Online | Industry briefs | Toy-like use of Internet in Japan still deeply rooted | Come again? | Welcome new subscribers!

Report No. 24
Birthday, JIR now searchable online | Hottest three sectors for online sales | Interview with Tim Clark of TKAI | Industry briefs | Online shopping: Getting it/not getting it

Report No. 23
Trend is toward "passive" usage, pursuit of personal interests, says FRI | Japan taking leading role in Internet fax sector | Anything to avoid using a keyboard! | Interview with Akihito Tsukioka of Digitized Information, Inc. | Industry briefs | Coming up on two years

Report No. 22
Online shopping starting to take root | Interview with Nelson Fung, Director of Technology, Typhoon Inc. | Industry briefs | The darker side of electronic money | Merry Christmas to 902

Report No. 21
Update on number of Internet users in Japan | More on travel | Push technologies hitting Japan | Online shopping gets a boost | Interview with Todd Newfield of Factcomm | Industry briefs | Review of PointCast Network's Japan version | URL ubiquity in Japan | New subscriber rundown

Report No. 20
Big telecom news | TKAI banner achieves record clickthrough rate on Hole-In-One | One reason for WorldCom's success | Interview with Rick Noelle of Akira PC and Networking | Industry briefs | Thoughts on online shopping in Japan | Reach 18,000 Japanese Web users twice monthly | New subscriber rundown

Report No. 19
Business Week covers latest Online Opportunities report | What will the hot new Japanese Web applications be? | More and better URLs | Required reading for JIR subscribers | Interview with Dave Emery of InfoPlus | Industry briefs | Where JIR's industry briefs come from | Do you find this ironic? | From around the world

Report No. 18
The future called yesterday | Japan's Web content improving | Not entirely Internet related, but amazing nonetheless | Interview break | Industry news briefs | New subscribers

Report No. 17
Online shopping is here now | Interview with George Arriola of Macromedia | Industry news briefs | Thoughts on the content business | Who you are

Report No. 16
JIR back issues available now | Special info from new report on Japanese Web users| Interview with William Auckerman, Editor|in|Chief, Computing Japan magazine | Who you are | Industry news briefs take a rest this month

Report No. 15
Interview with Vincent Gebes, General Manager of PSInet Japan | Industry news briefs| Three Golden Rules of Japanese banner advertising | Japanese Web report nearing completion | JIR policy review

Report No. 14
Interview with Mina Kohiyama of TKAI | Industry news briefs | Got to read this if you aren't already | Who are JIR readers?

Report No. 13
Interview with TWICS President Craig Oda | Industry news briefs | Japanese Web user report

Report No. 12
Hot holiday news couldn't wait | Is Big Bang in Japan's telecom market really Big Bust? | Foreign firms will drive real reform, as usual | Free service ISP to debut | The best place to buy computer stuff online | Back to normal in February

Report No. 11 (vacation)

Report No. 10
Interview with Russel Cheng of Bates Interactive Asia | Industry news briefs | Signs of the times | Acronym of the month award

Report No. 9
Shakeout in Japan's ISP sector | Interview with BNT President Kiyomi Saito | Industry news briefs | Demographics of JIR subscribers/editor comments

Report No. 8
Industry briefs | Interview with Mark Schrimsher, manager of Hole-in-One