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As a crippling outage causes chaos in Japan, the fax gains favor (www.japantimes.co.jp)
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[–] 5 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

Despite being a big innovator in tech Japan still loves fax machines.

Japan hasn't been quite the tech innovator in recent years like they used to be. IIRC, their tech sector has actually been in a pretty big slump for the last 20 years or so. Maybe "slump" isn't the right word, but the growth isn't as rapid as it was in the 80s and 90s.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 hours ago

    Japan has always lagged in software investment, and while you'd think open source would bridge that gap, the entire country is basically the poster child for the "not invented here" anti pattern. That allowed even the most rudimentary standards from western companies to run away with it.

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