Its finally happening. While we knew all along that the Japanese technologies are a decade ahead of the rest of us, they finally realised the same. They have also understood the enormouse potential they have if these systems were to be adopted by the wealthy and much more populous nations of the west.

Accordingly, Japan has decided to aggressively push to market abroad its mobile technology, especially the nations popular wallet phone. The technology relies on a tiny computer chip called FeliCa, embedded in each cell phone, which communicates with a reader-device at stores, train stations and vending machines for cashless payments. Its been used in Japan since 2004 and is leap years ahead of anything anywhere else.

Older Japanese technology had compatibility problems with other global standards, but new third-generation technology allows new products to be used outside the country, and can be more easily adapted to overseas products.

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