Ah... But you'd be surprised just how some aspects of modern technology was behind in Japan until all but a few years ago. When I arrived here in 1998, while I'd been online for close to 10 years then, barely anyone I knew around me in Japan was connected. It was still fairly new and fairly expensive. While the Internet has know an incredible expansion since then, I was still shocked at how "backwater" (pardon the expression) Japan was in that respect. It's really 50/50... On top of which, Japanese like gadgets, so gadgets always make it faster on the market here...
No worries about posting numbers... Others have more...
Anyway, back to your regularly scheduled topic...