The economic slowdown in the United States is pushing a major Indian software services company to diversify into the Japanese market, said Vivek Paul, president of Wipro Technologies.

"Japan is still a growing market (for us)," said Paul, who visited Tokyo last week to promote its business. "We are looking at telecom service providers as (a new) area (here) that we would love to get into."

Since opening its marketing base in Japan in 1995, Wipro has cultivated 30 corporate customers. Wipro is based in Bangalore, India's high-tech center.