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  2. Japanese mobile phone culture - Wikipedia

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    Japan was a leader in mobile phone technology. The first commercial camera phone was the Kyocera Visual Phone VP-210, released in Japan in May 1999. [2] The first mass-market camera phone was the J-SH04, a Sharp J-Phone model sold in Japan in November 2000. [3] It could instantly transmit pictures via cell phone telecommunication. [4]

  3. Toshiba–Kongsberg scandal - Wikipedia

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    The Toshiba–Kongsberg scandal, referred to in Japan as the Toshiba Machine Cocom violation case, was an international trade incident that unfolded during the final period of the Cold War. It centered on certain Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (CoCom) member nations who transgressed foreign exchange and foreign trade ...

  4. Boycotts of Japanese products - Wikipedia

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    The first boycott of Japanese products in China was started 1915 as a result of public indignation at the Twenty-One Demands which Japan forced China to accept. In 1919, the students and intellectuals involved in the May Fourth Movement called for another boycott of Japanese products, to which the public responded enthusiastically.

  5. Smartphone patent wars - Wikipedia

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    The pattern of suing and countersuing really began in 2009 as growth in the demand for smartphones accelerated dramatically with the advent of the modern smartphone, which combined a responsive touch screen with a modern multi-tasking operating system, a browser that provided full web access and an application store, in the form of the Apple iPhone 3G and the first Android phones.

  6. Galápagos syndrome - Wikipedia

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    A derived term is Gara-phone (ガラケー, gara-kei), blending with "mobile phone" (携帯, keitai), used to refer to Japanese feature phones, by contrast with newer smart phones. Takeshi Natsuno, professor at Tokyo's Keio University , explained, "Japan's cellphones are like the endemic species that Darwin encountered on the Galápagos Islands ...

  7. Sakoku Edict of 1635 - Wikipedia

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    After the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1603, Japan began trading with the Dutch East India Company and English East India Company through factories at Hirado in present-day Nagasaki Prefecture. Ieyasu's successor Hidetada significantly curtailed Catholic activity in Japan and banned foreign trading in Osaka and Kyoto.

  8. Voluntary export restraint - Wikipedia

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    The exporting country has accordingly adopted an export licensing system. Restrict the export of relevant commodities, and the importing country shall conduct supervision and inspection based on customs statistics. As one of the non-tariff measures, automatic export restrictions have seriously hindered the development of international trade.

  9. List of telecommunications regulatory bodies - Wikipedia

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    Japan: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Jordan: Telecommunications Regulatory Commission Kazakhstan: Ministry of Information and Communications of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kenya: Communications Authority of Kenya Kiribati: Communications Commission of Kiribati Kosovo