News Shimane misses out on ¥19m in subsidies due to typo

I suppose someone has been demoted to mopping the floors in Matsue City Hall.

On 6 June, Shimane Prefecture reported that a mistake in its application for a national government subsidy resulted in the loss of approximately 17.82 million yen (roughly $123,000) in funding. The error occurred during the submission process for the "Vision for a Digital Garden City Nation" initiative, a programme under which the central government is intended to cover half of the actual project costs.

While the prefectural government should have written the actual expense amount of 35,691,000 yen ($246,300) as "35691000," the staff member in charge mistakenly thought the form required an entry in thousands of yen and wrote "35691" instead. As a result, the prefecture received only about 18,000 yen ($124) instead of the intended 17.84 million yen.

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