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Communications and the Media
The Japanese feel the need of being in touch, but for a nation with high-tech in communications infrastructure can at times seem rather old-fashioned. It's not unusual, as an example, to see post office staff counting on an abacus.
There exists public telephones in the most improbable places, including on top of of Mount Fuji during the climbing season, but only some persons will be able to make international calls, and Internet cafés are thin on the ground outside the major urban centers.
Almost all convenience store has a fax machine for public use, and at all the main stations and top bookstores in the cities you can buy English-language newspapers and magazines.
 Mail
This country has an efficient and fast mail service, with post offices (yubin-kyoku) established all over the country, easily identified by their red-and-white signs of a T with a parallel bar across the top, the similar symbol that you'll find on the red letterboxes.
Mail & Telephone Glossary
Please, see the glossary...
Phones
Most of pay phones in Japan use coins and "Telephone Cards" Telephone cards can be acquired in every convenience store, train station shops and many times the cards are also sold in a sale machine inside or near the telephone.
Faxes, Email and the Internet
Several hotels and youth hostels provide services of fax for a small charge, while if you are invited generally the fax is free. Instead, most central post office or convenience stores (often open 24 hrs) have public fax machines.
The Media
If you know Japanese, Japan is a world with full notices, with 166 daily national and local newspaper companies printing some 70 million papers a day, more than triple the amount for the UK and even topping the US and China, despite both having much larger populations.
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