Japanese gov't adopts IT strategy

Japanese gov't adopts IT strategy

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (R) receives a report on Japan's information technology (IT) strategy from Nobuyuki Idei (L), chairman of the IT Strategy Council, an advisory panel to the prime minister, in Tokyo on Nov. 27. The strategy, hammered out at a joint meeting of the council and the IT Strategy Headquarters, a government task force, sets a goal of creating the world's most advanced IT infrastructures in the next five years with a total of 40 million households gaining high-speed Internet access.

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