Survey: Y2K bug bit nearly 12% of companies

Yomiuri Shimbun

More than 11 percent of about 2,500 companies and organizations in key industries experienced some sort of Y2K-related trouble between the end of last year and early March, according to a government survey released Thursday.

The government submitted a report on the survey results to an advisory panel on the millennium bug issue chaired by Takeo Shiina, top advisor at IBM Japan, Ltd.

The survey was conducted between mid-February and early March and targeted companies and organizations in 12 industries that are closely related to people's daily lives, including electricity, gas, water supply, nuclear fuel facilities, electronic communications, finance, aviation, railways and medicine.

It received responses from 2,504 entities.

Of the 11.6 percent that said the Y2K bug struck, 3.1 percent said the trouble they experienced had in turn affected the public. For example, on Feb. 29, a leap year day on which problems were expected, about 1,200 postal savings automatic teller machines did not go into operation as expected at 8 a.m

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