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I've heard this FAX meme since like early 2000, but I have yet to encounter one in my 4 years living here, and most Japanese people I joke this too just gets as

I've heard this FAX meme since like early 2000, but I have yet to encounter one in my 4 years living here, and most Japanese people I joke this too just gets as perplexed by the joke. I wonder, where do people find those FAX machine? Have I lived in a tech/startup bubble in Tokyo and missed it? I didn't even see it at the local Ward office in the suburb. Some stuff are still old-school (hanko etc) but it to me seem like the fax meme have outlived the reality. Last time I heard fax machine was a German exchange student in Tokyo, AFTER she returned to Germany and had to get some paperwork at the ward office, in Germany

pezezin 3y ago
Have you seen the big printers at many konbinis? Those are also fax machines. I have only sent two faxes in my life, and both were after I moved to Japan. The first was right after I arrived, I ordered something from Amazon and I realized I had written my address wrong, when I tried to fix it my account to blocked, and to unblock it I had to send a hand-written fax with my name and address. The second time was when I got a letter from the Sapporo police telling me that I had lost my driving license there. Again, to recover it I had to send a hand-written fax explaining the situation, so they could prove my identity. How that is considered a secure procedure is beyond me, but such is Japan.