Japanese offices struggle to adapt to social distancing

Japanese offices struggle to adapt to social distancingMany companies still put a strong emphasis on physical presence Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For our coronavirus tracker and more coverage, see our hub IN 57AD a Chinese

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"Despite its reputation for hi-tech wizardry, Japan can be stubbornly analogue. When the pandemic hit, only 40% of Japanese firms had used digitised contracts at all...Faxes remain ubiquitous; in many prefectures, doctors have been faxing coronavirus test results to public-health officials."