Why do most Japanese households have a fax machine?

September 9, 2008 at 12:12 pm (Confucius Lives Next Door, Japan FAQs and SAQs, Japanese business and economics, Japanese families, Japanese technology, Japanese telecommunications, Japanese telecommunications industry, Japanese town planning)

“Everybody had to have a fax machine in Japan… because nobody would come to your cocktail party if you didn’t fax every guest a map of how to get there” An American friend of T R Reid linking the success of the Japanese fax industry with its complicated system of addresses, Confucius Lives Next Door pg 72

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