>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.”
Landon Davis
I kind of want to see all the pokemon drawn by this artist. Curious but at the same time somewhat nightmare fuel.
To be honest it wouldn't surprise me if our ministers of their related portfolios were just as incompetent. They understand however that you're supposed to lie through your teeth and make sure the blame for incompetence never lands on your lap.
Thomas Sanchez
You can't have a cybersecurity problem if you don't use that kind of technology.
>Another joked that perhaps Sakurada was simply engaged in his own kind of cybersecurity. >“If a hacker targets this Minister Sakurada, they wouldn’t be able to steal any information. Indeed it might be the strongest kind of security!”
Tyler Hughes
This, Japs just don't question authority even if it means something terrible will happen. There was a Japanese pilot arrested at Heathrow recently who was 10 times over the legal alcohol limit and the only person who reported it was the British crew bus driver, the Japanese crew wouldn't have dared said anything even if it meant them dying in a fiery plane crash.
Jose Jones
No this can't be Japan is a technocracy based on the love for god, king and country where the overmind has decided immigrants are bad and computers are the future. Literally every Japanese politician has a PhD!
just stay here a week and and it's enough to get japs are mentally retarded
Tyler Hill
This is something else though. Giving a position as minister of cybersecurity so a guy who hasn't used a computer in his life and doesn't know what a USB stick is goes beyond the retardation of having some fat woman as health minister or some general civilian as minister of defense. At least the latter know that guns shoot bullets and tanks can drive. This guy doesn't even know what his ministry is about, imagine that.
Logan Sanders
You're absolutely right, I just wanted to banter Belgium
Jace Green
Bantering Belgium is always a good cause. Godspeed
Jaxon Hernandez
>Belgium health Minister Based tubgirl.
Those politicians aren't the people who do actual vital work, though. They're just portfolios they are given to look after, which boils down to meeting with lobbyists, etc. in the related field to see what big business wants and how they can leverage it from the people. His main tasks would be meeting with cybersecurity companies and having them tell him meaningless bullshit he doesn't care about in order to maintain relationships necessary for business contracts. Don't confuse them for experts relevant to their cabinet title.
Fucking boomers I swear to god, when will they fucking retire or die and give these jobs to actual competent young people.
Nolan Jackson
Sure, there are plenty of unqualified and incompetent ministers even in most developed countries. But the head of cyber security...really? You'd have virtually zero chance at reaching such a position without a long background in the field here even if the job just required you to push papers. The government here would never risk the public finding out that the national security was put at risk through such blatant corruption.
Adam Gutierrez
Agreed, something has to be done about the old "person" problem
Andrew Scott
Despite being a fattie, she is still a qualified doctor and a great minister overall. Thanks to her doctor's degree she is very knowledgable on the subject of health.
Compare that to a minister of cybersecurity who doesn't even know how a computer works. It's a completely different story imo
>members of their insane cults so are yours and ours the official name is "political party"
Noah Hall
FUCKING BLUMPH HAPPENED BECAUSE OF JAPAN IMPARCH DROMPF NOW
Christopher Cook
>weebs still can't process why China overtook japan
Jeremiah Sullivan
So your saying hes immune to any cyberattacks then, seems like the perfect defense. Well done Japan
Thomas Williams
All of them seem qualified. A soldier is minister of national defense, a doctor is the minister of public health, a farmer is the minister of agriculture and a refugee is the minister of immigration.
Christopher Taylor
>Has Japan been a third world country all along?
yes, Japan is not the futuristic. Japanese are still using archaic technology. They still use Fax machines, DVDs, and squat toilets. weebs think Neon lights with moonrunes outside of every building makes Japan futuristict. They are a bunch of deluded retards.
>muh vaporwave and cyberpunk
china and Singampore are way ahead of Japan.
Cooper Scott
Singapore is. With China, some areas are ahead but since it's so big it will take time for the whole country to reach a certain level. Their bullet trains are top notch though.
Anyway, this is democracy. Shit like this happens, e.g. India. No one is competent, not even the PM.
I was actually thinking about that, how the fuck Japan, a country which has state of the art technology, still refuses to use it. I was actually surprised when i learned that our bank system is better than the Japanese.
David Parker
kek
Jaxon Richardson
>actual competent young people in japan, young people are just as incompetent as old people when it comes to any technology beyond smartphones when i worked there i had to mentor several other programmers in their 20s so they could use basic features of word and excel
