Openpedia.org > An American Teaching in Asia Reports on Why Japan Loves Wikis

Sharing at Workhttp://www.sharingatwork.com/2008/08/american-teaching-in-asia-reports-on.html [Sharing at Work] . The only thing I could even think of is the nature of the Japanese-language Web. Even now, most Japanese portals (and web pages for that matter) are basically link pages - there is surprisingly little multimedia content. That's possibly because the majority of Japanese don't actually browse the Internet on PCs.. most regularly browse the Web on their mobile phones, which are far more advanced than anything in the rest of the world (mainly because the network is different, and the manufacturers only produce phones for Japan). Therefore, Japanese websites are traditionally image-light, and have lots of links. I would guess that's why they like wikis so much; it appeals to their sense of what's "right" about an Internet site.

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