IIJ TO LAUNCH IIJ WEB STANDARD.

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TOKYO and NEW YORK, March 6 /PRNewswire Asia-AsiaNet/ -- Internet Initiative Japan (Nasdaq: IIJI) ("IIJ"), one of Japan's leading Internet access and solutions providers, today announced that will launch a new value added service named "IIJ Web Standard", a web hosting service, as of March 14, 2001. The new service mainly targets Small Office / Home Office (SOHO) and other corporate users.

Mr. Koichi Suzuki, President and CEO of IIJ, commented: "We believe the addition of IIJ Web Standard to IIJ's list of value added services will contribute broadening of our customer base, in combination with our other second-tier services such as IIJT1 Standard."

The IIJ Web Standard allows customers to use their own domain names while providing them with up to 200 Mega Bytes of web hosting space. By only including the limited specifications such as access counter and reference of access log, IIJ realized to setup pricing of the service to a minimum, JPY 5,000/month. Additionally, through careful traffic management of the storage space, IIJ will ensure a high-performance web-server environment for users.

About IIJ

Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ, NASDAQ: IIJI) is Japan's leading Internet-access and comprehensive Internet solution provider mainly targeting high-end corporate customers. Founded in 1992 as a pioneer of commercial Internet services in Japan, IIJ has built one of the largest Internet backbone networks in Japan as well as between Japan and the United States. IIJ and its group companies provide total solutions including: new generation network services over optical-fiber infrastructure optimized for data communications; construction of Asian-wide IP backbone networks, high-quality Internet access, security systems, hosting/housing, and content design; as well as systems integration.

The statements within this release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risk and uncertainties.

These statements may differ materially from actual future events or results. Readers are referred to the documents filed by Internet Initiative Japan Inc. with the SEC, specifically the most recent reports on Forms 20-Fand 6-K, which identify important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements.

SOURCE Internet Initiative Japan Inc.