Japan scrapped every regulation requiring the use of floppy disks for administrative purposes recently, catching up with the times 13 years after the country’s producers manufactured their last units. While renowned for its consumer electronics giants, robots and some of the world’s fastest broadband networks, the country has also been wedded to these along with other old technologies like fax machines and cash.
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Japan finally phases out floppy disks
When he encountered an image of a highway billboard for an American cancer clinic that read, “If you know what a floppy disk is it may be time for your cancer screening,” Mr. Kono responded on social media: “No, not necessarily in Japan.”
