Japan, despite its high-tech reputation, has very low-tech tastes, says Financial Times’ Leo Lewis.
In early March, as part of a survey, Japanese IT research group ITR asked the country’s corporations if they had systems that would allow staff to work remotely. 28 per cent said that they did; 27 per cent said they were thinking about it; while the remaining 45 per cent either weren’t even considering it or didn’t know.
The insistence upon physical seals is a waste of time. Company adoption of digital contract and seal technology has been modest. But – to the great consternation of Japan’s professional sealmakers – the coronavirus crisis has now forced the government to take the lead in pressing for a fundamental change of the technological and legal framework behind document authentication.
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