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

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TOKYO: Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone in a campaign to modernise the bureaucracy.

A hand inserting a floppy disk into a vintage old computer from the eighties, with integrated an disk drive monitor and keyboard. TOKYO: Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone in a campaign to modernise the bureaucracy.

"We have won the war on floppy disks on Jun 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. A charismatic figure with 2.5 million followers on X, Kono formerly headed the defence and foreign ministries as well as the COVID-19 vaccine deployment, taking up his current role in August 2022 after a failed bid to become prime minister.

 

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