I suppose anyone from the UK is certainly aware of the Post Office scandal. This isn't quite your usual Software Engineering disaster tale, the sort you might expect to giggle about during a computer science lecture as you naively think that you'd never do something that bad yourself. No this is a lot worse,
https://www.private-eye.co.uk/special-r ... n-the-post offers a pretty good read if you have a cup of coffee handy, we don't recommend tea whilst reading this one.
Fujitsu of course sponsored Go in Europe to quite some degree. The Fujitsu Grand Prix ran from 1988->1999 , they also sponsored some big annual elite KO tournaments at the EGCC. But what induced them to sponsor Go in Europe though? Was this down to a local connection in the UK (particularly at the end of the 80s they had a large acquisition there) or was it more a kind of global outreach on their part, offering a little encouragement to Europe on top of their existing sponsorship in Japan?