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Logistics companies in Japan are trying to come up with ways to reduce parcel redeliveries as they face serious shortages of truck drivers due to new overtime regulations that took effect in April.

In contrast with floppies in government, the package delivery sector is Japan is surprisingly advanced compared to other places I lived (as long as you read Japanese as English interfaces are minimal or nonexistent). Any improvement is welcome but maybe loan some of your engineers to the Digital Ministry.

Some 70% of the target procedures have been revised. Of 1,034 that originally required floppy disks, the requirement for the use of the format invented in the 1970s has reportedly been abolished in all but one -- where the Ministry of the Environment is in the process of revising an ordinance.

As a first link post here at Nipponica, this seems appropriate and an accurate way of countering the myth of Japan being a hub of future technology. The biggest problem that plagues government and business processes here are rigid to the point of being almost impossible to change. It took a global pandemic to mostly phase out the use of physical hanko personal seals as legal signatures on official documents.

"Digitization has made considerable progress. We would like to proceed with necessary reviews, including the use of faxes."

Ambitious, Konoさん.