Surprisingly

Japan is widely considered to be one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world, and to a certain extent this is most definitely true. What might surprise you however, is how completely technologically inept a large number of people are with things like bank machines, self-service machines of any kind for that matter, and most shockingly, computers(!).

At my school, some teachers can barely even create a word document. Of course there are those who know how to work their way around the computer, but it's really only a handful. We recently had a worm virus infect a number of computers, mine included. I managed to clean mine up by myself in about 30 minutes, but there are still other teachers who are having troubles nearly a week later. An IT guy has been visiting my school for the past few days, and it looks like today he managed to finally get it all sorted out.

So while, it's true that Japan has some of the most technologically advanced items and facilities in the world, the average person's ability to comprehend/use this technology on the whole, seems to be rather lacking.