The Profile of Japanese Technical Communicators
http://www.stc.org/confproceed/1996/PDFs/PG124127.PDF

Yotsuyanagi, Noriko and Earl E. McDowell
STC Proceedings
1996

Abstract:

The profile of Japanese technical communicators was surveyed in December 1994. The most typical Japanese technical communicator is a 41-year-old man with an engineering degree; he works as a techncial writer/editor with management responsibility for a large-sized high-tech company and lives in Tokyo. In Japan, the profession of technical communication is very new, unknown, and low in its professional status in industry with virtually no formal education or research support from higher education.