Japan
General Country Information
Capital: Tokyo
Population: 127,467,972 (July 2008)
Form of Government: Constitutional Monarchy
Telephone and Internet Communications in real numbers
Telephone- main lines: 55.155 million (2006)
Telephone- mobile: 101.7 million (2006)
Internet hosts: 33.333 million (2007)
Internet users: 87.54 million (2006)
Country Ranking
DOI* 2005/2006: 0.77
World Rank 2005/2006: 2
*The Digital Opportunity Index (DOI) evaluates the opportunity, infrastructure and utilization of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) worldwide and was created by the Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity and Promotion (KADO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The DOI is based on a scale of 0-1, where 1 is ideal, and the World Rank is taken into consideration out of 181 countries, based on the DOI.
Disability Organizations and Contact Information:
The Japanese Association on Disability
info@nginet.jp
Japan Council on Disability
office@jdnet.gr.jp
Japanese Society for Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities (JSRPD)
soumu@dinf.ne.jp
National Institute of Special Needs Education
a-kokusai@nise.go.jp
National Rehabilitation Centre for the Blind
no contact information currently available
Information Resources for Disabled Persons in Japan
no contact information currently available
Japanese Federation of the Deaf (JFD)
no contact information currently available