NAGO, Okinawa Pref. — A few hours after adopting the IT Charter here Saturday, leaders of the Group of Eight nations had some hands-on experience with Japan's "e-voting" technology to vote for one another in such categories as "most witty" and "most stylish."
Exiting a 90-minute meeting in the afternoon at the Bankoku Shinryokan conference hall, the G8 leaders tried out NHK's digital BS broadcasting TV screens and cast electronic ballots.
Russian President Vladimir Putin asked NHK chairman Katsuji Ebisawa about how much it would cost to introduce a digital BS broadcasting system.