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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Fujitsu is an embarrassment in Japan too. Their software literally crashed the Tokyo Stock Market for an entire day. They fucked up Japan's long needed shift to a National ID number to collate government services under one umbrella. Everyone in Japan questions how they got so many domestic and foreign government contracts.

Spoiler alert: it's cronyism. The Japanese government has kept this company propped up with government contracts and subsidies for way too long.