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What's 'technical debt'?
Many Japanese companies are struggling with 'technical debt', meaning they have old computer systems that are expensive to maintain and difficult to upgrade. About 60% of their systems are over 20 years old. This makes it much harder to adopt new AI tools, as they often need modern, flexible IT infrastructure to run properly.
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