Another thing that I fear people don't get: they see the name "Fujitsu" and thing "oh, Japanese people". Not in this case, no. Fujitsu is just the current name

Another thing that I fear people don't get: they see the name "Fujitsu" and thing "oh, Japanese people". Not in this case, no. Fujitsu is just the current name of who owns ICL, International Computers Limited. ICL are British through and through. This entire scandal is "Fujitsu's UK subsiduary", i.e. ICL ICL were established and got into UK Government IT procurement in the 1960s, because Harold Wilson and Tony Benn didn't want to be beholden to the Americans (IBM) for these new-fangled computer calculator thingies. ICL would supply both the _computers_ and the _software_ to British government. It still runs mainframes for the Inland Revenue and Department of Work and Pensions. By the 1980s, they were still running but they were using Fujitsu components and entire PC systems, and by the late 1990s, Fujitsu had acquired ICL... but ICL is still ICL (with a new name) and is still incredibly chummy with the UK government and still wins contracts for government IT procurement. None of this scandal happened in Japan. It happened in Bracknell.