At East Japan Railway, the nation's largest rail
company, a Y2K-related glitch caused vending
machines for prepaid train cards to stop working
in 13 stations for part of New Year's Day, said
spokesman Seichiro Ono. The machines were quickly fixed.

Tampa Bay Online

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), January 01, 2000

Answers

Vending machines? Geez...starving Japanese, film at 11.

-- Uncle Bob (UNCLB0B@AOL.COM), January 01, 2000.

The machines were quickly fixed

No, they are lying. If it took them years to find this problem, how could they quickly fix it?

-- Butt Nugget (catsbutt@umailme.com), January 01, 2000.

They should have said "the machines were quickly replaced".

-- come on folks (knows@japan.jp), January 01, 2000.