Japanese Officials Get Scolded For Gundam
October 7, 2007 by Patrick Quek
Filed under Gaming
The Jap are crazy (to the level of “Otakuness”) over anime and robots but using work hours to edit Wikipedia on Gundam doesn’t garner much approval.
Japan’s Agriculture Ministry reprimanded six bureaucrats after an internal probe found they spent work hours contributing to Wikipedia on topics unrelated to farm issues — including 260 entries about cartoon robots.
“The Agriculture Ministry is not in charge of Gundam,” said ministry official Tsutomu Shimomura.
Maybe they should use a proxy via Yahoo! News
