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About two years after the nation’s digital minister publicly declared a “conflict on floppy discs,” Japan reportedly stopped utilizing floppy disks in governmental programs as of June 28.
Per a Reuters report on Wednesday, Japan’s authorities “eradicated using floppy disks in all its programs.” The report notes that by mid-June, Japan’s Digital Company (a physique arrange through the COVID-19 pandemic and aimed toward updating authorities expertise) had “scrapped all 1,034 laws governing their use, apart from one environmental stricture associated to automobile recycling.” That means that there is as much as one authorities use that would nonetheless flip to floppy disks, although extra particulars weren’t accessible.
Digital Minister Taro Kono, the politician behind the modernization of the Japanese authorities’s tech, has made his distaste for floppy disks and different previous workplace tech, like fax machines, fairly public. Kono, who’s reportedly contemplating a second presidential run, informed Reuters in an announcement right this moment:
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