Same reason fax is still a thing you need if you want to do anything official or business related, why PC-98 was a thing, why their smartphones are weird, why they invented the term Galapagos syndrome, or why they use laptops that still have compact disk drives and look like this:

Japan innovates early. They innovate fast and enthusiastically. And then they sort of… stop.

Technology in Japan looks futuristic for a while, then the rest of the world catches up, but, since Japan has already been there for a decade and made different decisions their technology looks… odd, and then the world carries on, while Japan seems stuck in some kind of retrofuturistic limbo.

Of course this is happening with different innovations at different times and paces, so from an outside perspective Japan is always a weird combination of futuristic, weird old alternate future, and just plain weird.

When it comes to web design, they’re stuck in their version of the Geocities / dot-com boom era.

Livin’ in the 2000s since the 1980s, baby!

Not weird, information dense.

To think the average American who can barely explain the politics they support without having the talking points repeated to them night after night could pay attention to something that makes them think is a bold take.