Two reviews in Japanese of the G-FORT. Use the sites mentioned below if you want a machine translation:

http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/review/2001/01/26/gfort.htm
http://www.wince.ne.jp/snap/ceSnapView.asp?PID=73 (Part 2: http://www.wince.ne.jp/snap/ceSnapView.asp?PID=74)

Press releases and other links can be found in both of these articles.

There are a few good Japanese language sites out there for Windows CE and mobile news.

Windows CE Fan: http://www.wince.ne.jp/
Keitai Watch: http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/
ZDNet Mobile: http://www.zdnet.co.jp/mobile/

Unless you understand Japanese these won't be much use, but I recommend the following two machine translation sites:

E-lingo: http://www.e-lingo.com/browse/browse.php3 (Also available through: http://www.excite.co.jp/world/url

Amikiai: http://www.amikai.com/browse/

Using one these you should be able to get a gist of what the article is about and understand the main points.

There are three mobile Japanese language general mobile computing magazines I know of in Japan. The two monthly ones (both 680 yen and published on 24th of the month) are 'Nikkei Mobile' and 'Mobile i'. They both contain good, comprehensive information about the latest products on the market, comparisons of different devices and lots of other useful and interesting info. The thrid, Mobile Press, is thicker less glossy and published 4 times a year. It contains longer articles, including ones on interesting looking hardware hacks if that's of interest to anyone. It also comes with a CD with freeware and shareware. All three mags cover all types of mobile computing devices from credit card or watch type up to A4 notebooks. I'll post the URLs at a later date but none of the mags have web sites which feature more than a table of contents for the latest issue. I'll let you know when this changes. I've also seen but not bought a number of Palm publications on the shelves in Japan. I think it's too soon to see a Pocket PC dedicated publication. This will obviously depends on increasing the number of Pocket PC users. With the large number of competing devices available, it's difficult to say when that critical number will be reached. At the moment we have Jordana and Casio models on the market, as well as a device made by Casio but marketed by NTT DoCoMo called the G-FORT. More information on these to come on a related web page at a later date. It's been reported we'll see a Japanese model of the iPAQ later this year ..... I'll believe it when I see it. When they do eventually get it out the technology may already be starting to date. Casio is due to release the E-707 for business users this month which has inbuilt communications functionality as well as Compact Flash and MMC/SD card slots.

Well. Here goes. Pocket PC has still really got to take off in Japan, and faces a lot of compeition from other platforms. MS and Pocket PC supporters are going to have to do a lot to see it really take off here. In particular MS should have a better Pocket PC web site to match the US version. There are some posts to the Microsoft Pocket PC newsgroup about localized versions of the Pocket PC web site and the fact the MS seems to be ignoring Pocket PC users outside the US. We'll see if the situation improves. Anyway, back on topic. This is the start of my blog. Lot's of things to catch up on and hopefully lot's of interesting stuff in the future, but I don't know of any other site covering the Pocket PC in Japan, so hopefully this will become the place you go to get the latest info.