Japan, a rustic recognized for forwarding a number of the world’s most progressive and quirky tech, is making ready to launch an all out “war” towards the standard floppy disk.

Taro Kono, the nation’s newly appointed Digital Minister, bellowed out his battle cry on Twitter Tuesday. According to Kono, floppy disks—together with different dated tech like CDs and MiniDiscs —are nonetheless required for round 1,900 authorities procedures.

Kono’s vow to purge the federal government of the 50 plus yr outdated floppy tech comes amid a border effort to modernize the way in which individuals in Japan submit purposes and different varieties. The digital minister mentioned his campaign has the backing of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, according to a press convention seen by Bloomberg.

This isn’t the primary time Kono’s reportedly lashed out at perceived inefficiencies weighing down Japan’s authorities forms. In the previous, Kono’s lashed out at fax machines and Japan’s hanko carved stamps.

“I’m looking to get rid of the fax machine, and I still plan to do that,” Kono had mentioned.

Japan could don’t have any selection however to show their again on the floppy for purely sensible causes. Sony, one of many main producers of the disks up to now, formally stopped producing them 11 years in the past. Since then, most organizations have moved on to extra superior storage options like USB-flash drives and cloud companies. Even the U.S. The Department of Defense, which oddly holds a powerful repute as a late adopter to new pc tech, lastly phased out floppy discs in 2019 after a gnarly 5 a long time of use.

Supply points apart, floppy discs are more and more impractical. As Tom’s Hardware notes, trendy texts and spreadsheet information are considerably bigger than these within the 80’s when floppys had been of their prime.