Microsof accepting BTC now, Japan using it soon?
It is true that you can add money to your Mircosoft account using Bitcoins. But the second statement is just a rumor. The Japanese government is not going to use Bitcoins anytime in the near future, because BTC is a direct competitor to the JPY.
Under what rock have you been hiding? Explain these:
Countdown: Bitcoin Will Be a Legal Method of Payment in Japan in Two Months
Bitcoin Accepting Shops in Japan Increase Drastically, by 4.5x
20 000 merchants accepting Bitcoin in Japan
Please don't be, like, ".. but they are not using it as a currency." because no government ever will. It will just be a legal payment method but it will not replace their fiat currency. Fiat currency is very essential to the government and there's no reason for them to replace their fiat currency with bitcoin since bitcoin isn't mainstream yet. But certainly they are starting to accept or already accepting bitcoins now.
Nothing special there. Bitcoins are already legal in countries such as Singapore and the United States. The status of the crypto-currency will be legalized. That is it[1]. But you can't say that "Japan is using it soon"[2]. Some of the Japanese are already using it, and the latest development will make hardly any difference.[3]
Funny how I just proved your point wrong using facts and links of them and you just said "nothing special there" About the latest updates in the technology we can expect that rich countries like Singapore and the US will have it first.
[1] That's it? It's not a "that's it" thing because the concept of bitcoin definitely is not the same as the government's centralized system. From our point of view, it's pretty obvious that bitcoin users don't want to use fiat anymore and are well-aware of the fiat slavery going on in the system. It's not a "that's it" thing just because you saw Singapore and the US has accepted it. There's far more many countries and all these countries will have different opinion on something as big as bitcoin.
[2] Why? I don't see any reason why I cannot or shouldn't.
[3] Of course some Japanese have been using it. Just like how a couple of people in other countries are using it. Small amount of people using bitcoins in a country don't matter at all since all the rest are still using fiat and aren't aware of bitcoins at all. The latest development or implementation for bitcoin being a legal payment method will surely make a huge difference since it will make all the other Japanese people that something like bitcoins is existing and they can use it. And since Japan is one of the countries people look up to, if they started using bitcoins, other people might use it as well.