Japan’s economy unexpectedly slipped into recession after shrinking for a second quarter due to anemic domestic demand, prompting some central bank watchers to push back bets on when the nation’s negative interest rate policy will end.
Hospitality IT in Japan here, we still heavily use fax. When we were opening the property they wanted me to get the fax lines setup as a higher priority than even getting the guest networks online.
We honestly don’t want to use them at our property, but the issue is that many suppliers require orders be faxed. We buy almost 100% local and most of the vendors are older family owned businesses that won’t take orders any other way, and so that means all other businesses basically are required to support fax as well.
Kanji works fine, though it can sometimes be a little bit difficult to read if the quality isn’t great.
I don’t think the language is a huge barrier, though the widespread use of personal seals over signatures might contribute some.
Well… yes… but if I had to choose a country to invest in between one that specializes in digitizing business and one that specializes in fax machines I’m probably choosing the former
maybe but as of a few years ago many business processes still involve the fax machine
Hospitality IT in Japan here, we still heavily use fax. When we were opening the property they wanted me to get the fax lines setup as a higher priority than even getting the guest networks online.
We honestly don’t want to use them at our property, but the issue is that many suppliers require orders be faxed. We buy almost 100% local and most of the vendors are older family owned businesses that won’t take orders any other way, and so that means all other businesses basically are required to support fax as well.
How do fax even work in Japan? Is it kana only? I do wonder to what extent the use of such things there is because of the language.
Kanji works fine, though it can sometimes be a little bit difficult to read if the quality isn’t great.
I don’t think the language is a huge barrier, though the widespread use of personal seals over signatures might contribute some.
Well… yes… but if I had to choose a country to invest in between one that specializes in digitizing business and one that specializes in fax machines I’m probably choosing the former