>Japanese lawmakers were aghast on Wednesday when Yoshitaka Sakurada, 68, the minister who heads the government’s cybersecurity office, said during questioning in Parliament that he had no need for the devices, and appeared confused when asked basic technology questions. >“I don’t type on a computer,” he added. >Asked by a lawmaker if nuclear power plants allowed the use of USB drives, a common technology widely considered to be a security risk, Mr. Sakurada did not seem to understand what they were.
In japan it is very common concept: the most deciding voice / respect always go to the oldest people in the corporation / group no matter their actual merits or skills.
Tbh in typical democracy instead of skill people vote by their emotions instead, so they vote equally terribly for popular or handsome candidates or even worse: just to spite libtards (thats how trump become a thing).
Can't believe this is even real. What the fuck Japan.
Leo Parker
kek we elected our whole government this way in fact, our defence minister is a Culinary Arts graduate
Nathan Roberts
>In 2016, he apologized after saying so-called comfort women — Koreans who were abducted and forced to become sex slaves for the Imperial Japanese Army before and during World War II — were “prostitutes by occupation” and that people had been “heavily misled by propaganda work treating them as if they were victims.”
