Fight for your right to keitai: geeks in Japan protest anti-vintage-tech ban

Boing Boing: Fight for your right to keitai: geeks in Japan protest anti-vintage-tech ban

I know Japan is a leading force in technology and modernisation... And tends to drive things by throwing out the old (or not so old, like five year old cars), but I think this might be going one step too far... Though I'm sure it was backed by the Tech firms, since it will presumably drive up sales of current generation tech...