The Japanese don't switch to electronic document systems because of their great respect for precedent and established procedure. A whole administrative and legal culture has grown up around the paper document, and the Japanese are too attached to the old ways to give that up.
The Japanese mindset loves technology and innovation, but only if it fits into the established scheme of things. Disruptive innovation -- or, indeed, ANY kind of disruption -- is anathema.
For example, the iPhone could not have been developed in Japan. It was too much of a break from the past. If left to themselves, the Japanese might have got there in the end, but only through a decades long process of incremental steps.
The Japanese mindset loves technology and innovation, but only if it fits into the established scheme of things. Disruptive innovation -- or, indeed, ANY kind of disruption -- is anathema.
For example, the iPhone could not have been developed in Japan. It was too much of a break from the past. If left to themselves, the Japanese might have got there in the end, but only through a decades long process of incremental steps.