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The Japanese already use cell phones to shop, read novels, exchange e-mail, search for restaurants and take video clips. Now they can take a university course. Cyber University, the nation’s only university to offer all classes only on the Internet, began offering a class on mobile phones this November. In classes with personal computers, the lecture downloads play on the monitor as text and images in the middle, and a smaller video of the lecturer shows in the corner, complete with sound. On the cell phone version, which pops up as streaming video on the handset’s tiny screen, plays just the Power Point images. Cyber University, which opened in April with government approval to give bachelor’s degrees, has 1,850 students.