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Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life UPDATE:Default Title and an eternal sense ofAuthor Contributor(s): Ito, Mizuko; Matsuda, Misa; Okabe, Daisuke Publisher: The MIT Press Date: 9 8 2006 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW How mobile communications in Japan became a pervasively personal tool that connects families and friends, creating "always on" social engagement. The Japanese term for mobile phone, keitai (roughly translated as "something you carry with you"), evokes not technical capability or freedom of movement but intimacy