In Japan, mobile phones became ubiquitous years before the phenomenon spread worldwide. In Japanese, mobile phones are called keitai denwa, literally "portable telephones", and are often known simply
A girl in the Harajuku district of Tokyo with a phone in 2008
A young girl taking photos with her phone at the Osaka Aquarium in 2006
A Japanese flip style cellular phone popular in the late 2000s
Japanese cell phones are often decorated with charms and stickers
NTT Docomo
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NTT Docomo, Inc., stylized as NTT DOCOMO, is a Japanese mobile telecommunications carrier and a subsidiary of NTT, one of the world's leading telecommunications operators. Structured as a joint-stock
Japanese mobile phone culture
…E-money service and various certification functions through Untouched IC card (FeliCa etc.) Various services with NTT DoCoMo's 'Osaifu-Keitai (mobile phone with wallet function)' E-money service e.g. 'Edy…
Sanno Park Tower, home of NTT Docomo's headquarters
A large pile of Docomodake merchandise
NTT DoCoMo stand at 2008 GSMA Mobile World Congress, Barcelona