Japan is slow on 5G adoption because it built excellent 4G, then charged roughly the same for 5G plans with data caps attached, so most customers see no reason to switch. The country rolls out 5G infrastructure quickly but upgrades people slowly, and the gap between the two shows up in every speed test. That … Read more
Japanese data centers are growing because cloud migration and AI workloads have hit the limits of Japan’s land, power and construction supply at the same time. Rising enterprise cloud adoption, GPU density, resilience rules and global platform expansion pull investment toward Tokyo, Osaka and regional cities, while grid connections, buildable land and available crews decide … Read more
Japanese cloud providers compete in three layers at once: infrastructure, regulation and service. Domestic operators such as NTT DATA, Fujitsu, NEC, Sakura Internet, IIJ, KDDI and SoftBank press their advantage in in-country regions, ISMAP certification and Japanese-language support, while AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud push scale, service breadth and price. The tension … Read more