- By Mariko Oi
- BBC News, Tokyo
Japanese company Fujitsu is once more in the limelight as sufferers of the Post Office scandal inquiry what duty it played. More than 900 Post Office branch supervisors were founded guilty when damaged accountancy software application made it look as though cash had actually gone missing out on from their websites. That software application, called Horizon, had actually been created by Fujitsu.
An elderly Fujitsu exec will certainly be examined by MPs following week. So just how did a Japanese business, typically understood to Brits as a manufacturer of laptop computers, come to be involved in among the most extensive losing the unborn babies of justice in UK lawful background?
It might be hard to think, however in Fujitsu’s home market, rarely anybody has actually come acrossthe Horizon scandal Japan’s traditional media really did not record on it up until today.