30/04/2026
Unpopular opinion: Japan's digital problem isn't a technology problem.
It's a people problem.
✗ "The system still works" - so nobody wants to touch it
✗ The people who built it retired years ago - and took the knowledge with them
✗ The budget is already consumed by maintenance - nothing left for change
✗ There aren't enough IT professionals to do the work anyway
Every one of these is a human decision, a knowledge gap, or an organizational constraint.
Technology is actually the easy part.
The companies making real progress aren't starting with a tech overhaul. They're starting with one honest question: where are we losing the most time or money right now?
That one question changes everything.
We broke down why so many Japanese companies are still running on legacy systems - and what the ones moving forward should be doing differently.
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