Thanks for the answer! Takaaki Ishikawa <tak...@ieee.org> writes:
> Dear Tory, > > Good point. I don’t know “taking off” is the correct word, but as you > mentioned, it’s still growing. I can see several reasons why you think > Japanese content has been increasing in the Web. First, some students use > Emacs in their university because their teacher also uses Emacs. Then, the > students use Emacs to write papers for graduation. I know a super student. He > wrote his thesis using Emacs with org-mode! After graduation, they will be > programmers, engineers, and researchers with high-level technical skills > enough to distribute their knowledge through their blog and twitter. Second, > We have several workshops related to Emacs and org-mode. At least, two > workshops are held a few times a year at Kyoto and Tokyo. The participants of > the workshops write blog entries and release some emacs-lisp actively. An > Emacs advent calendar is a good example. Finally, we have many Japanese > translated materials, manual, tutorial, org-web, and twitter bot, to know > org-mode quickly and easily. And of course, the primary reason is that > org-mode is very useful tool to do anything with Emacs :-) > > Best regards, > Takaaki Ishikawa > > >> Jan 27, 2015 11:16 PM、Tory S. Anderson <torys.ander...@gmail.com> のメール: >> >> There seems to be (and has been for a while) a growing Japanese presence >> online with orgmode materials, documentation, addons, etc. Most recenlty I >> found this blog: http://paper.li/highfrontier/1300501273 . I had also >> noticed many of the page titles on the orgmode website/wiki had Japanese >> content. This has me curious. Does anyone know the story of what's causing >> it to take off in Japan, or whether "taking off" is even the right word? Is >> it just a few people or a department at a university that are using it? >>