Characteristics of Japanese mobile phone culture

Since 2002, most mobile phones sold in Japan have been equipped with camera function, and some models even have the same camera quality as digital cameras, and most of them also support video recording function. These photos are often sent by SMS (that is, MMS function).

Many Japanese mobile phones have additional data management functions, besides the common address book, alarm clock and timer, there are also games, different image processing, framing images, making small animations and so on. I-mode and 3G

Some new Japanese mobile phones allow users to watch TV and movie trailers. At present, these services are realized through the Internet. In Japan, using mobile phones to surf the Internet, that is, connecting I-mode services, is quite popular. At the same time, Japan is also the first country in the world to fully lay and promote the 3G mobile phone system. Most users use mobile phones to surf the Internet and browse websites in pure text. Many Japanese websites will also design a suitable substation for the screen size and connection speed of mobile phones. Among them, the most popular is the service that allows users to check the number of trains in public transport system and plan the fare transfer trip with their mobile phones.

Chatting with mobile phones on public transport is considered quite inappropriate by many Japanese. For example, in buses and MRT, passengers are explicitly told not to make phone calls and put their mobile phones into silent mode (called Mode mode in Japan). Therefore, Japanese mobile phone manufacturers have introduced low-cost short messages to meet the communication needs of this traffic period, which makes Japanese short message service full of many special ideograms and emotions. Sometimes English and Japanese are used together, and this short message communication method is very popular among Japanese people of almost all ages.

Text-rich short messages

Many Japanese people receive quite a lot of short messages every day, and teenagers especially like the quickness, privacy and conciseness of short messages. Therefore, many Japanese schools explicitly prohibit students from using SMS on campus. Communication through SMS is also considered by teenagers as a common way to make friends and a prelude to the development of love. Many websites offer registered users to search for strangers with similar interests, and then communicate by SMS for the first time, which has changed the interpersonal relationship culture of Japanese teenagers.

Therefore, Japanese mobile phones are made of quite substantial characters, including Latin letters, hiragana, katakana, Chinese characters and special symbols (such as millimeter special symbol ㎜, as well as arrow symbols and phonetic symbols). The information composed by these symbols is quite different, which may be quite different from the original intention of the West (see Yan Wen). Metaphors with a large number of character shapes are used.

Many words are often used not according to the meaning of the word, but according to its appearance, such as the common left oblique sign. In Japanese short messages, if there is a left oblique symbol at the end of a sentence, it is likely to represent the author's depressed mood. Like what? I have an exam today? . It means that the author may forget to read, forget the exam, or be dissatisfied with the exam. Slant lines indicate drooping eyebrows or corners of eyes.

In addition, it is like the symbol of Libra (? ), because it looks like a hot potato, it will also serve as a symbol of congratulations in the new year. The symbol of Aquarius (? ), because there are many waves, it is often regarded as? Sea? Abbreviation In Japanese mobile phone culture, not only these short message symbols are used, but also color editing and background editing are added. ASCII art is also quite common on mobile phones (mostly used to create various facial expressions).