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In the popular imagination, Japan is a high-tech conurbation of robots and gadgets. In reality, living here can feel like being stuck in the 1980s, when fax machines were hautetech and neon passed for cutting edge. While in neighbouring countries like China, even beggars have begun to use QR codes for receiving alms, in Japan many transactions remain strictly cash only. Opening a bank account requires a mountain of paperwork to rival Mt. Fuji and making online payments involves physical trips to the bank every time a new payee has to be added. In 2018, Yoshitaka Sakurad, the deputy head of the government’s cybersecurity panel, made headlines when he admitted to never having used a computer in his professional life. In normal times, it is just possible to rosewash the requirement to fax in information requests to government offices as endearingly quaint. When, following the declaration of a state of emergency, people were told to stay at home and work remotely, it became clear that most companies were ill-equipped to facilitate telework. In a March survey conducted by IT research group, ITR, 45% of corporations said they had no systems in place to allow staff to work from home. Only 28% said they were ready to make the switch. Some employees did not have laptops at home (even though a third of Japanese households have fax machines). Others found it difficult to do without the constant supervision and approval of superiors, given the strict hierarchies of the workplace that are the norm. But it was the hanko, or personalized carved seal, that emerged as the greatest obstacle to physical distancing. Most official documents in Japan still require the physical stamp of a company hanko, which is expected to remain in the office. Consequently, the most commonly cited reason for people not following work from home edicts was the need to go into stamp documentation. The government’s emergency declaration target was to reduce office attendance by 70%. But on April 8,the day after the emergency was called, Yahoo data showed only a 26% drop in user’s movements. Another lacuna exposed by the pandemic is Japan’s backwardness in the field.
Answer the following questions from the above passage-
Q1. Why living in Japan can feel like being stuck in the 1980s?
Q2. What the deputy head of the government's cybersecurity panel made headlines in 2018?
Q3. What is in the survey which is conducted by IT research group?
Q4. What emerged as the greatest obstacle to physical distancing?
Q5. What was the target of the government's emergency declaration?
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