Shigeta expects a massive financial harvest over the next two years, as the number of mobile subscribers in Japan rises to over 70 million and most current users switch, as close to 3 million already have, to new phones with Internet access or e-mail capabilities.
One Republican congressional aide who received the e-mails this week expressed surprise that a lobbying firm with such close ties to the White House would attack al-Maliki at such a pivotal time on the debate over the war, just weeks before Bush provides a progress report to the nation.