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JAPAN
Communications
The Japanese are masters in the art of keeping in touch, but for
a supposedly high-tech nation their communications infrastructure
can at times seem rather old-fashioned. It's not unusual, for example,
to see post office staff counting on an abacus.
Public telephones are available in the most unlikely of places,
including on top of Mount Fuji during the climbing season, but few
allow you to make international calls, and Internet cafés
are thin on the ground outside the main urban centres. At least
every convenience store has a fax machine for public use, and at
all the major stations and top bookstores in the cities you can
buy English-language newspapers and magazines. |
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