S1E5: How Japan lost reputation as needle-shifting tech innovators: Letter From The Bureau Ep 5

The Straits Times Podcasts · Sep 2, 2021 · 20m

Letter From The Bureau Ep 5: How Japan lost reputation as needle-shifting tech innovators

20:19 mins

Synopsis: The Straits Times' foreign editor Bhagyashree Garekar chats with ST’s correspondents in the Asia-Pacific, the US and Europe every month.

They talk about life as it goes on, amid the screaming headlines and bubbling crises.

In this episode, she chats with ST's Japan correspondent Walter Sim about the following:

Cultural resistance to change remains in Japan; how even vaccination passports are still paper-based (4:17)

How the 'Galapagos Island' syndrome has cost Japan (6:15)…