Japan’s Ministry of International Trade & Industry is concerned at the relatively low penetration of personal computers in Japan, and wants a dramatic increase in the number in homes, government offices and schools as part of a 10-year plan to embrace thecomputer age. A subcommittee of a ministry advisory body is likely to recommend that every central government office worker have a personal computer on his desk within 10 years, up from the one for every 36 officials in central government and for every 51 in local government, against around one for every four in the US central government.
