• 9       Outdated, inconvenient, and horribly inefficient.    •
11        Unless you can get time off from work to go to the
bank, you have to pay the after hours charge, to use the bloody
ATM.      Just about everything you want to do takes time. Going
to the counter to get money out means that your money has to be
passed around on a tray to 2 or 3 people.      Almost everything
is still paper-based, which is stupid.      The continued use of
the dumb inkan is annoying.    • 6       Very primitive. Even if
you own your home free and clear you can't borrow money against
it to start or expand a business. It leaves tens of trillions of
yen unnecessarily tied up in home equity instead of contributing
to economic growth.    • -3      Peter Payne      Probie, that
is a secret plot to force all men to get married, so their wives
can do their banking for them.    • 0       Ahhh Peter ! Always
been searching for a reason without success, everything makes
sense now !!!    • 4       One of the first countries to get A