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Japan 2020 laptop shipments hit record high on teleworking

[서울=아시아뉴스통신] 레악카나기자 송고시간 2021-01-27 03:30

A customer looks at a laptop computer at the Bic Camera Akiba electronics store in Tokyo in 2017. On Thursday an industry association reported that sales of personal computers jumped 37 percent in 2019.(Photo by=Bloomberg)

[Asia News Communication = Reporter Reakkana] Shipments of laptop computers in Japan increase 25.1 percent in 2020 and will hit a record high due to increased teleworking amid the novel coronavirus pandemic and the government's policy to supply computers to each elementary and junior high school student, an industry body said Tuesday.

Kyodo said that the laptop shipments reached 8.9 million units, but fell 0.2 percent by value to 679.7 billion yen ($6.6 billion) from a year earlier, partly because demand concentrated on low-priced laptops to secure units in a limited budget to distribute them to schools, the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association said.

The Japanese government has promoted the use of information technology in education since before the spread of the coronavirus, although Japan is behind in IT education efforts compared with other developed countries. The pandemic sped up the schedule of the personal computer distribution, and most municipalities will complete handing out computers or tablets to every student in their schools by the end of March. In regards to demand related to teleworking, the purchase of PCs for working from home further increased since the government called for less commuting as the country declared its first state of emergency for urban areas such as Tokyo in April and expanded it to other parts of the country later in the month and May.



 

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