This article leads off the magazine’s special feature, “Prepare for the ‘Information Warfare Crisis.’” Yet, it is intended neither as an introduction nor as a summary of the other essays following this one.
Drainage pumps at pump stations are for preventing rivers from flooding. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) is drastically changing the way it orders the pumps.
“Electric vehicles (EV) are an extension of radio-controlled model cars. We developed at a speed unimaginable for conventional car developers. We’ve clashed countless times with the engineer who had an experience managing car development,” says President Masanori Yoshida of Aspark, an engineer staffing company in Osaka.