Sounds like something Fravia did between breakfast and brushing teeth. :-) Considering the age of the referenced documents this mechanism should be in place by now.
"The warren of small stores selling paraphernalia such as resistors, capacitors, LEDs and soldering irons became a symbol of Akihabara over the years."
... paraphernalia, allright. How does that journalist imagine he could write this article without any of them? :-D