IT literacy of Japanese politicians

In recent weeks, Japanese government party 'Jiminto' and opposition party 'Minshuto' had been fighting about a e-mail scandal. Here is a summary of this scandal and the result.

Mr.Nagata, who is the star of this foolish drama, graduated from science course of Tokyo Univ. - top of Univ. in Japan, and worked as national public servant, then has been a member of diet. From his background, he is perfect elite. But unfortunately he, his colleagues and executives absolutely lack IT literacy.

Do you believe scandalous e-mail if...

• received it as FAX or printout
• some words are masked
• To: and From: are same
• most normal headers are missing
• it looks be created by word-processor
• the writing style is different from the sender used to
• it uses "@FAMILYNAME" in signature description
• the sender had been interviewed from TV in that Date: