Japan is the latest target on Toshiba’s list of territories to conquer. Toshiba is all set to launch a modified version of Intel’s classmate convertible laptop in the tech-savvy country.

Before Apple wooed audiences with the iPad, tablet PCs were primarily meant for purposed other than entertainment, education being one of them. Toshiba is ready to resurrect this long-standing market and has subtly hooked up with Intel to bring into existence the CM1, a new version developed by Toshiba as an improvisation on the earlier Classmate designed by Intel. The precedent Classmate had been launched by Intel mainly for the education market and was open to manufacturers of personal computers for use as a reference. That significantly the cost of manufacturing as most of the work is already prepared for exploitation.

Slated for an August launch, the CM1 will be especially meant for education purposes. Many of us may have noticed the fourth-generation Classmate design that had been released in March this year at the Cebit electronics show in Germany. The Toshiba CM1 looks pretty similar to that design, but inside the case, it is much stronger.

The convertible design of the laptop allows the screen to rotate and twist and fold down over the keyboard to look not much different from a PC tablet. Toshiba said that the computer is based o the N450 version of Intel’s Atom processor clocked at 1.66 GHz, has a 10.1-inch touchscreen and will run Windows 7 Professional.

Toshiba also revealed that it expects the educational PC market to grow substantially in the coming years following a new Japanese government policy to provide digital textbooks for all elementary and junior high school students by 2015.

With no plans of promoting the new sensation beyond the Japanese border, the CM1 will be made available via subsidiary Toshiba Information Equipment, but they are yet to disclose the cost of the same.