Japan will start an aggressive push to market abroad its mobile technology, particularly the nation’s popular “wallet phone,” a government official said Tuesday.

Although Japan boasts some of the most sophisticated cell phones in the world, delivering high-speed Net connections, digital TV broadcasts and video downloads, the nation has losed out to construct its handsets, wireless technology and mobile services hits outside of Japan.

The latest initiative spearheaded by the government with an industry group of Japanese carriers and

manufacturers is an effort to help Japan catch up in wooing global users, said Masayuki Ito, official at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

Among the wireless innovations Japan hopes to peddle is the 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.

FeliCa was developed by Japanese electronics […]

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