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Japanese city loses residents’ personal data, which was on paper being transported on a windy day

Archive/mirror: https://archive.ph/gSEjU [https://archive.ph/gSEjU] I guess their documents are in the cloud now…

I seriously thought this was an Onion article until they started dropping specific details.

But they were recovered when a beautiful girl helped him pick them all up, starting a life-long love affair.

She didn’t speak his language, but that cannot stop love.

But the fact she was a foreigner did.

Bureaucracy. Bureaucracy never changes.

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

That's how all of Kansas lost theirs, or so I'm told by this Dorothy girl over here.

Recording everything using paper. How very Japanese.

How else were they going to get everything stamped?

*faxed

I’m surprised spreadsheets and fax machines weren’t somehow involved.

That’s what could be the ‘new’ digital process.

This is the most Japanese problem I've seen today and I live in Japan.

I love the photo used in this article (also the thumbnail here)