Like the time two workers at a nuclear reactor almost created a critical mass in a bucket: https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-sec...
Most definitely not. Japanese working culture is notorious for rigidity, lack of transparency, and slow decision-making. Workers are exploited, despite few possibilities for promotion, wildly unreasonable expectations are common. Many employees work for 80 or more hours each week, with many of those hours considered unpaid overtime. Even after the workday is over, workers are expected to spend their free time socializing with colleagues outside of work. Workers who take measures to improve their mental health are met with a level of stigma, and many are told to simply get some rest, while at the same time suffering constant pressure to always be working with no time to relax.
It's like end-stage America, if anything.
Japanese people, like many other are proud. Rightly so, it’s an amazing culture. But it’s not efficient one. At least not now.
If the whole world just keeps mindlessly repeating this trope, they’re never going to try improve and get with the times.
It’s a highly inefficient and backwards society of late and really could do with modernising.
The Japanese proverb for it is: "Kusai ni futa wo shire" - if there's a stink, put a lid over it.
> Luckily for the man, city officials said the data contained on the drive is encrypted and locked with a password.
Assuming it’s encrypted properly, I reckon the data is safer on a lost USB stick than on any internet-connected computer. Better if it was a not-lost USB stick, of course, but it happens.
On a usb drive, the range of possible attackers is comparatively miniscule.
> "We deeply regret that we have profoundly harmed the public's trust in the administration of the city," an Amagasaki city official told a press conference.
Public officials acting accountable is refreshing. On a side note, I wonder how anyone found out about this. Presumably he could have just gone back to work and made another copy. Maybe I'm being cynical.
