Japan's digital minister has vowed to remove laws requiring that data sent to the government is shipped on floppy disks and other physical media.
Digital minister Taro Kono on Tuesday vowed to dismiss Japan's laws that have entrenched floppy disks and CD-ROMs in the nation's systems. In a tweet from his English Twitter account, Kono
said he was declaring "war" on floppy disks as part of its digital transformation and enabling citizens to submit data online.
Kono explained there were about 1,900 articles in Japan's laws that require businesses to submit forms to the government on floppy disk. There are also 157 laws that require submissions specifically be sent on optical disks, magnetic disks, and magnetic tapes.