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The prospect that Japanese companies increasingly will outsource the operation of their e-commerce and other e-business systems to specialists is convincing a horde of American competitors and transpacific partnerships to open data centers. Among the latest bunch are IBM JAPAN LTD. and INTERNET INITIATIVE JAPAN INC., the operator of a major Internet backbone network in Japan through CROSSWAVE COMMUNICATIONS INC., a joint venture with SONY CORP. and TOYOTA MOTOR CORP., as well as across the Pacific. IIJ already is building data centers in Tokyo, Osaka and five other cities at a cost of $92.6 million. Now that it has tied up with IBM Japan, the company ...