Not sure what you mean by the “internet” being 20 years behind. Maybe website design? Certainly not connectivity which is generally world class. Japan has a gr

Not sure what you mean by the “internet” being 20 years behind. Maybe website design? Certainly not connectivity which is generally world class. Japan has a great culture of precision engineering and quality (although software is a bit of a different story). On the other hand decision making is very conservative and change is often blocked by vested interests. Also they invested heavily in a lot of cutting edge infrastructure during the bubble, but now have been slow to replace it. The most likely answer as to why the MPD still use floppy disks is there is no funding for a total system upgrade. The most likely reason there is no funding is a combination of conservative decision making combined with a politically well connected vendor that makes big bucks of supporting the existing infrastructure.