Electronic Publishing in Japan - a review in 1990 - FID/CAO Workshop on Electronic Publishing, Seoul, November 1st, 1990 -

Electronic publishing, vaguely defined area of activities and vaguely defined scope of products, is consisting of electronic or computerized processing of text, images, graphics for publication in one of electronic forms and also in a traditional printing on paper. As it is vague in scope, topics of this paper are of diverse interests. Technological developments related to electronic publishing are rapid in Japan. Activities and events by various organizations, both in the private sector and the public sector, are not few, and interlaced.