Here is another academic org user in Japan. I started writing articles a few years ago and am also using it for doing research etc. I live in Kyoto, so please drop me a line if something goes on here!! Christian
On 2015-01-28 09:54, Waldemar Quevedo wrote: > Ishikawa-san > >> I know a super student. He wrote his thesis using Emacs with org-mode! > Sounds interesting, by any chance is it on Github or somewhere publicly > available? > > By the way I live in Tokyo, would be great to attend one of these Emacs+Org > mode meetups in Kyoto or Tokyo! Japanese no problem ;) > > Cheers, > > - Waldemar > > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:20 AM, Tory S. Anderson <torys.ander...@gmail.com > <mailto:torys.ander...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Thanks for the answer! > > Takaaki Ishikawa <tak...@ieee.org <mailto: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 > <mailto: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? > >> > > -- Christian Wittern, Kyoto