By comparison, in 1999, players were in 10% of Japanese households.

Japan may be a mass transit nation, but now there is also a car for almost every Japanese household.

In fact, the cable television industry is already moving to hook up more Japanese households with modern communications services.

Japanese households spent less on housing, clothing and transportation in June compared with a year earlier, the report said.

Japanese households thus had greater disposable income to pay for improved housing and other consumer items.

Around 1990, 10% of Japanese households had a washlet, and this number increased greatly to over 50% in 2002.

Meanwhile, the average Japanese household saw its savings grow to as much as $65,000, according to one estimate.

This electricity is equivalent to annual electric consumption of about 10,000 Japanese households.

Aging Japanese households are inclined to save their money.

And it would give Japanese households a positive return on their savings.