So, is there a gameshow yet that tests calculator speed and accuracy whilst being fellated?

This video is giving me Carpal tunnel syndrome just watching it.

Isn't this an everyday skill of accounts clerks? Or have things in the western world change in the 30 years?

What they need to do is figure out how to put their facts and figures in electronic form. Maybe using a "computer" running a "program" that adds figures up in columns and rows like a "spreadsheet".

A typical teenage heavy metal guitar player puts cogs to shame.

Hai! this is most assuredly the country where the Game Boy was invented. *humble bow to the master of mobile button mashing and then back to my knees where I belong*

Ya...doesn't seem like a future-proof skill to have... computers, cameras, image recognition...all these things make this skill pretty irrelevant.

She'd probably be ten to twenty percent more productive if she used a reverse polish calculator. I'm just saying.

=SUM(A2:A10, C2:C10)

I win

Japan is full of these kinds of paradoxes. It's like when you wander around Tokyo and find a Shinto shrine that is hundreds of years old squeezed between two skyscrapers. There are tons of things here that could be done more efficiently or effectively but aren't done that way because of tradition or social values.

Just to give one example at my own job, people nearly always come to see me face-to-face for even the most trivial of things that could be easily resolved with a one-line email. Most workplaces in Japan still very much appreciate the "personal touch" of interacting with another human being and value the relationship between co-workers over the efficiency technology can provide.

Barbarians...