The biggest problem -- and the biggest ally of cyberattackers aiming at Japan -- is the widespread belief that ‘it can't happen here.'

"It can't happen here" is the theme song for japan. What's called? Hubris?

You beat me to it, sillygirl.

Yes, it's hubris that prompts these kinds of attitudes. Hubris sprinkled liberally with no small amount of willful ignorance.

The thing that simple boggles the senses is that it's Japan that experienced a series of internationally reported "problems" with high-ranking individuals in the military and goverment losing classified information, like specs on the new-generation fighter plane being develoed by the U.S. to possibly be sold to Japan, though such nefarious activities as using their work computers to download movies via file sharing programs, and (gasp!) leaving their work laptops behind on buses and in restaurants.

Japan won't be satisfied until some hacker with enough ill-will takes thorough advantage of this quaint "heiwa boke" complacency and punches the country square in the proverbial family jewels.