I think this article might be over-stating the lack of technological adoption at Japanese companies to the point of characterizing the nation as some backwards

I think this article might be over-stating the lack of technological adoption at Japanese companies to the point of characterizing the nation as some backwards Kafka-esque nightmare. I was just at the Openstack Tokyo Design Summit where there were plenty of Japanese companies sharing their stories of adopting and contributing to Openstack technologies: NTT DoCoMo, NEC, Fujitsu, Yahoo Japan, and others. These are not small companies and many of them are building critical public infrastructure on Openstack. You can still buy cassette tapes in corner stores in Canada and there are many industries here where people still use fax machines (ie: lawyers, realtors, contractors). I don't think Japan is unique in this regard.