“The ministry of agriculture is not in charge of Gundam”

Written by: Michael Keferl on October 5, 2007 at 4:17 pm | In 01 Technology & Gadget Trends |

…or so says Ministry of Agriculture official Tsutomo Shimomura after discovering that one of its bureaucrats contributed 260 times to the Japanese-language Wikipedia entry on Gundam, the long-running anime series on giant robots, mobile suits, and epic battles between giant robots and guys in mobile suits. Of course, he used ministry computers.

From Yahoo News:

The agriculture ministry verbally reprimanded five other bureaucrats who contributed to entries on movies, typographical mistakes in billboard signs and local politics. The six employees together made 408 entries on the popular Internet encyclopedia from ministry computers since 2003.

Of course, in our opinion, a government bureaucrat who spends his time producing real, practical information (such as that related to Gundam) is far more useful than one who spends his time doing government business. Besides, isn’t Gundam the Ministry of Technology’s turf?

The story in Japanese HERE

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