Digitalisation is Key to Japan Success, Says IMF Report

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1. Meanwhile…

   – [“Japan’s cyber-security minister has ‘never used a computer'”](https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46222026) (2018)

   – [“Minister in charge of information technology policy defends politicians’ use of paper”](https://japantoday.com/category/politics/minister-in-charge-of-information-technology-policy-defends-politicians%E2%80%99-use-of-paper) (2020)

2. One of the highest usage of fax and paper forms. I do wonder what the pushback here is, Japan’s neighbors and rest of the world has moved past that *20 years ago*.

   It’s truly baffling.

3. Oh god. C’mon japan. We’re rooting for you, but you’re so stuck in your old ways. At least no banks have collapsed in the past few years. But damn.

4. 20 years too late to make that discovery, bud.

5. I have a theory. Computers and the internet are foreign (English/American invention).

6. This is funny because most people think japan is highly digitalised