Japan Refuses to Part With Traditional Fax Reports FreeFaxService ...

San Francisco, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/23/2012 -- The aging device, that is the fax machine, may have out of date with the rest of the world, but in Japan it is still a required communication tool used for important messages. In fact, last year?s nuclear crisis at Fukushima plant, the government was informed of the emergency seawater injection through fax.

The high-tech countries continued devotion to fax maybe somewhat odd, presenting the nation?s inability to adapt to global standard changes may be seen as conceding to economic rivals such as South Korea and China.

Japan has a traditional reverence of paper and handwriting; nevertheless, they make use of the analog world. In other developed countries, the use of computer lags behind. In Japan, government ministries and business meetings revolve around printed documents, the fax machines spins and whir, indications of a busy administration.

An owner of a real estate company says, ?I use the fax machine almost daily because it?s reliable and I trust it?. In most places, fax machine statistics stopped long ago, as the technology grew obsolete as it increasingly went into mobiles, photocopiers and computers. World prominent fax machine makers are based in Japan, though, such as Brother, Sharp and Ricoh.

As of March this year, 59 percent of Japanese homes still use fax machines. From the beginning, a computer never worked well for them, the reason behind is the mix of three syllabaries language with thousands of complex kanji. It made typing nearly impossible particularly for older people, who are convenient to write letters by hand.

An additional factor is the phone lines monopolized by the government making internet rates relatively high as compared to countries like South Korea where they promoted cheap use of broadband. With all of these obstacles, the locals held a preference of using mobile phones to surf the net. Most homes have phones making them easier to fax and cut cost in online communications.

Still, Japan is in an attempt to detach itself from fax machines. A mobile company joined the campaign of going paperless last month to save printing and for environmental reasons. Other companies want to join soon but for now, many companies offering services to consumers say that the fax machine remains their preferred mode of communication.

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