[Almondsetat]

Taking inspiration from your nickname, how do you explain the many technical aspects of Japan that are still stuck in the 90s? They surely know how to look around and they surely know better things have been battle tested for decades in other countries, and yet...

[AtlasBarfed]

It's an aging populace. They are the leading indicator of the demographic Cliff of urbanization and post-industrial countries in post-industrial economies.

Old people don't like to adopt new technology or ideas

Countries with demographic cliffs likely also try to extract more labor out of older people. So decision makers for adoption of new technology and techniques which would go with management or some other analogue, have reduced neuroplasticity and won't adopt change as readily.