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From: sws@tora.RoBIN.de (Steffen W. Schilke)
Subject: Japanization Thesis available
Keywords: I18N J10N Japanization Internationalization
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I would like to announce the availability of my thesis (in pdf)

"Japanization, An Introduction to Software Japanization" (1992)

via ftp !

Attached you will find the readme and the abstract to this work.

----------------- Abstract ---------------------------


                                   Abstract

          "Japanization, An Introduction to Software Japanization"

                             by Steffen W. Schilke


In this thesis ( " Diplomarbeit " ) I will introduce the reader
to the japanization (localization for the Japanese computer
environment) of computer software systems. This means the adaptation
of software to a Japanese language environment. Also I will show the
main diferences in the system structure. Besides that I will discuss
which steps a software house should made to japanize an European or
an American software product.

In the further outlook you will find an introduction to some of the
japanization standardization approaches, which have been made in the
last couple of years.

The project was started by world wide research in diferent libraries,
databases and on CD ROM. Besides that I wrote several letters to
companies and international organization's all over the world. After
this preparation I was undertaking a research trip to Japan and stayed
there as a guest of Hoechst Japan Ltd. in Tokyo. During the time of
this research trip I contacted computer & software related companies
and organization. Also I have made many interviews with EDP related
people. After the collection of the data I wrote this evaluation of the
material.

Regarding the fact that the Japanese market is the second biggest
information technology market in the world. It is worth to adapt software
products to this different, but homogeneous, market. Differences like
different double byte character sets, Front End Processors and the
Japanese culture make it difficult, but not impossible, to succeed in
this market. In the last couple of years the fast developing technology
made it much easier to adapt a product to this market. Also you could
consider the japanization as a first step to enter the other Asian markets
(adaptation to the computer environments in China, Korea, . . . cause
similar problems).



Keywords : japanization, internationalization (I18N), globalization,
           localization, regionalization, kanjification, MNLS (multi
           national language support), Japan, DBCS (double byte
           character set), SBCS (single byte character set), Hiragana,
           Katakana, Kanji, Asia, standards

------------------ Readme.txt -------------------------
This is the readme.txt file for the thesis :

"Japanization, An Introduction to Software Japanization"

by Steffen W. Schilke (the score is 1.1 on the German scale [1.0 is the best])

There are the following files :

Filename   Format    No. of Pages    Comment

readme     txt                       This file

Abstract   pdf       1               The Abstract of the thesis
Abstract   txt
Maegaki    pdf       1               Japanese version of the Abstract
Maegaki    sjs
Maegaki    jis
Maegaki    euc
toc        pdf       3               Table of Contents
toc        txt
lof        pdf       5               List of Figures
lof        txt
lot        pdf       1               List of Tables
lot        txt

Intro      pdf       14              Thesis intro (Abstract,toc,lof,lot,...)
Chapter1   pdf       4               Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter2   pdf       39              Chapter 2. The Japanese Market
Chapter3   pdf       3               Chapter 3. Doing Business in Japan
Chapter4   pdf       107             Chapter 4. Cultural Differences
Chapter5   pdf       19              Chapter 5. Japanization
Chapter6   pdf       6               Chapter 6. Further Outlook
Appendix   pdf       29              Appendix (Index,Glossary,Char. Sets, ...)

Diplom     pdf       221             The complete thesis on Japanization
     (everything mentioned above, Abstract,
     toc,lof, lot, Chapter 1-6 & Appendix &
     extras pages never published before :-)

pic_x      pcx       6               The pictures I made for this thesis


To view this work I recommend you to use the free Adobe Acrobat PDF
Reader 2.X which is available at :

ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/Acrobat or http://www.adobe.com

for the following platforms :

Adobe(R) Acrobat(R) Reader 2.1 for Windows(R)
Adobe Acrobat Reader 2.1 for Macintosh(R)
Adobe Acrobat Reader 2.1 for Sun(TM) SPARC(R) and HP platforms
      Sun SPARC SunOS(TM) 4.1.3 and 4.1.4
      Sun SPARC Solaris(R) 2.3 and 2.4
      Hewlett Packard HP-UX 9.03 and above
Adobe Acrobat Reader 2.1 for Silicon Graphics(R)
      Silicon Graphics(R) IRIX(TM) 5.3 and 6.2
Adobe Acrobat Reader 2.1 for AIX
      AIX 4.1.3 and above

( end of commercial :-)

This thesis was done using LaTeX on a 386 notebook and a Fuji-Xerox J-Star
system (for the Japanese text & graphics), Japanese Freelance for Windows
and a scanner of a friend (sorry some of the scans are not that good 
as they got converted to black/white). All pdf files are done in 300 dpi.


Contact Information :

Mail  : Steffen W. Schilke, Im Grund 27-J, D-61130 Nidderau 2 Germany
e@mail: j10n@tora.robin.de

Legal Stuff !!!

(C)opyright 1992..1996 by Steffen W. Schilke - No part of this publication 
may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form 
or by any means, electronic, mechanical or otherwise without prior permission
by the copyright owner.

Permission is hereby granted to put the thesis on a WWW or FTP site BUT
not without this readme.txt file (and do not alter the text or format of
the readme or any other file belonging to the thesis (compressing the
files is the only exemption)). If you put it on your site you MUST send
me a notification including the URL or the name of the ftp site and the
full path !

If you want to publish it on a CD ROM contact me first via e@mail. If you
get my permission you have to send me at least some copies of the CD ROM 
as a reference for free.

If you want to publish it in printed form please contact me in written
form (a letter) at the above mentioned address (in German, English or
Japanese).

If you are a company and want to make use of the knowledge presented in
this thesis you might want to consider to send a contribution to the
author.






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