Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks

Congratulations. Welcome to the modern world.

YUP!!... now it would take like another 20 years to eliminate CD-Roms, I guess

The pace of adoption of new technology, and relinquishing of old, makes Japan look ridiculous. I remember interviewing at a Japanese company overseas in the mid 90s and they had full-time people operating Telex machines.

I wonder when they will upgrade their computers from XP?

The pace of adoption of new technology,

Depends on the area and aplication... for example the adoption of the IC card as a payment method took off pretty quickly.

And about cashless, although late compare to other places, in the last couple of years the adoption has increase rapidly. Just today I saw (don't remember were though) a chart indicating that nearly half of younger poeple (40 years and below) use cashless payment rather than cash for payments.

And people 20 and younger, the majority don't carry cash.

Someone had to sign off on the decision to get rid of floppy discs by faxing a hanko-ed document.

FYI NASA and the US Navy still uses floppy discs.

I believe there are various legacy systems that runs XP as well.

YubaruToday  04:27 pm JST

I wonder when they will upgrade their computers from XP?

They’ve done that already. They’re on Windows 7, don’t you know….!? ;)

"We have won the war on floppy disks on June 28!" Digital Minister Taro Kono, who has been vocal about wiping out fax machines and other analogue technology in government, told Reuters in a statement on Wednesday.

As he runs for Mayor at 96, Dr. Nakamats sheds a single lonely tear.

 I wonder when they will upgrade their computers from XP?

In fairness, Windows XP was the best OS Microsoft ever made.

In fairness, Windows XP was the best OS Microsoft ever made.

That doesn’t say much, does it?

Simply couldn't make it up.

Just think.......20 years ago Japan was the world's most advanced nation.

In 2005, I sent my demoreel on DVD to several Japanese companies. Capcom requested a VHS instead... go figure.

TriringToday 04:41 pm JST

FYI NASA and the US Navy still uses floppy discs.

I believe there are various legacy systems that runs XP as well.

If your nuclear missile launch control isn't broken, don't fix it.

Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks

Why it rarely in Japan private sector, because they know it's not effective use floppy disk.

The amount of data that can be transferred is limited. When some floppy disk can't be read it need to redo the whole task. When series of floppy disk, and you lost one, you'll have incomplete documents. Many other things. However it looks that JGovt like inefficiency, how many resources being wasted for this.

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YUP!!... now it would take like another 20 years to eliminate CD-Roms, I guess

Even that article, it doesn't mention about cloud. So it just move from one physical medium to another physical medium.

My oh my, a great victory indeed. It's really an embarrassment.

I still see many software programs that use the floppy disk icon as the 'Save' button, including most current Microsoft Office applications!

By the middle of last month, the Digital Agency had scrapped all 1,034 regulations governing their use,

As said in the above sentence, it was just a question of regulations.

By the middle of last month, the Digital Agency had scrapped all 1,034 regulations governing their use, floppy disks have not been used for over a decade.

All ministries and governmental agencies use computers on lease, and renew the materials and systems every few years.

Oh my, this is crazy. I haven't used floppy disks in well over 25 years. I hardly use CDs or DVDs or blurays anymore.

Welcome to the new millennium Japan. You’re only 25 years late. Now, they have to do away with Windoze XP and fax machines.

Ive been living back in Australia for a few years now after nearly two decades in Japan. It made me realize just how far behind Japan is behind the rest of the world in their use of technology. They create the technology but don’t use it. The city hall and car license and registration systems are straight out of the 1950’s. Car registration is ridiculous. You have to run from building to building to get your red stamps and after 3-4 hours a couple of old blokes for your plates. It takes me ten minutes to register my car online in Australia. A yearly inspection takes 45 minutes and can be done by any mechanic for $43.

Moving back to Australia after spending 8 years in Japan made me feel like a bit of a luddite. The whole office was paperless - using Google apps and cloud docs was such a change from having to print out 8 copies of a 20 page slide deck (one for every person in the meeting room). Even onboarding was through an app and was seamless.

I had the same experience outside of work as well. Signing up to a rental and paying bond was all done online. Getting my drivers licence updated and sent to me and getting a new bank account - all online without any fuss.

Meanwhile to cancel my softbank account, I had to send them a fax. A fax!

The longer Japanese companies hold off embracing digital, the more inefficient they will become compared with their overseas rivals who are embracing digitisation. Japanese workers will have widening skill gaps with the rest of the world. A workforce trained on Windows XP? Great - while Hikari is spending 20 minutes crafting an email Johnny over here has used copilot to craft 20 sales emails for different clients using copilot.

Bye-bye floppies, R.I.P. Anyway, in that former and now bygone era they were part of IT and the society and world in general when still almost everything was very much understandable, working , functioning, in order and most problems quickly fixable and solvable, economies widely prospering and average people quite wealthy, happy, content with life and with outlooks of a great splendid future. So, my dears, not to shock you but in fact this nice game is now completely lost and over, that's why I don't say that I miss those floppy discs, but much more the time in general when they were still in usage. In that sense it would be much better for all of us if we still had them all around.

So now no more floppy? What about those tape drives. Haha. So many server rooms still use them. lol.

I find it hard to fathom calling this a victory. It'd be like if a 1992 Olympic marathon runner finally crossed the finish line and called it a victory for the nation.

Remember most Japanese over 50 still have their assistants print out their emails. lol

FYI NASA and the US Navy still uses floppy discs.

NASA has some old test data stored on floppies but it doesn't actively use the discs, according to a former engineer there. If a researcher needs to access the data, they put the discs into a device that downloads the data to modern media. NASA's projects go back decades, let's remember.

In Japan's case, the vaccine rollout, the pension records scandals and other incidents have highlighted how Japan was relying on long outdated storage methods.

Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks

How could something so embarrassing be declared a victory ?

Have they mastered the Supreme ability to stop using floppy discs already ?

Clearly the Japanese government is leading the world

It's very impressive indeed

Congratulations

All the downvotes suggest some don't want to believe that many Japanese institutions are not technologically modern.