Japan’s digital lag: Why its people aren’t actually ‘living in the future’

Tehnologie

For all its high-tech innovations, Japan trails in the digital rankings compared to most advanced economies. The programme Insight looks at what lies behind its slow pace of digitalisation and the extent of its cyber vulnerability. TOKYO: With its shiny robots and bullet trains, Japan seems like a technological utopia. But beneath the surface lies a digital dysfunction that leaves the country vulnerable in today’s interconnected world. In January, Japan’s National Police Agency disclosed that