These are English-language websites dealing with the Japanese IT market.

Nikkei Net Interactive contains all stories from The Nikkei Weekly; about 100 major articles each day from The Nihon Keizai Shimbun, The Nikkei Industrial Daily and The Nikkei Financial Daily; a handy keyword search engine; and frequent updates of news articles and market data.

Tech-On! (http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/) is a comprehensive and informative site for engineers, researchers and academics in the manufacturing and high-tech industries.

The site is owned by one of the major business publishers in Japan, Nikkei Business Publications, and integrates its four trade magazine websites; Nikkei Electronics, Nikkei Microdevices, Nikkei Monozukuri and Nikkei Automotive Technology. Reporters from each publication write daily news for the site, which has over 400,000 registered readers.

Asia BizTech, from Nikkei Business Publications, covers business technology happenings primarily in Japan, Korea, China and Taiwan. The articles are excerpts translated into English from various Japanese print publications in the Nikkei group such as Nikkei Computer, Nikkei Market Access and Nikkei New Media.

Dempa (http://www.dempa.net/) Dempa Publications got its start in the 1950s, and grew along with the electronics industry. Dempa Shimbun Daily is the flagship periodical, a daily (Monday to Saturday) full-sized B-to-B newspaper in Japanese, exclusively covering the electronics industry. The paper appears each morning on the desks and doorsteps of readers nationwide. Net delivery is also available for readers overseas. Dempa Shimbun is the only daily newspaper exclusively covering the electronics industry and attaining nationwide, door-to-door distribution in Japan.

Back to top