Japan’s largest mobile carrier (DoCoMo) lost a record number of subscribers last month. Moreover, the firm’s marketshare continues to slide… which, metaphorically, represents Japan’s biggest dilemma: forestalling economic and social reform…
Long story short, OECD nations continue to languish due to inept plutocracies that serve a finite, select group of special interests… NTT (like AT&T / Verizon in America, etc.) are not interested in innovation… they are entrenched / focused on protecting their domains (unfortunately, largely, at the expense of the greater good).
(Source) Business Week: http://goo.gl/jgp9cx