I am a Japanese programmer and a blogger. My blog is Uncategorizable Blog(アンカテ) http://d.hatena.ne.jp/essa/. And I have written some opensource softwares: Amrita, Amrita2. ReviewableMind at http://retro.brain-tokyo.net/.
Latest posts by Taku Nakajima
Japan: The problems facing Japan's IT industry
An article in the New York Times a few weeks ago, describing a chronic shortage of engineers in Japan, received support from many Japanese bloggers. The article explains that young people in Japanare more interested nowadays with fields like finance or medicine, or creative careers like the arts, then they are with engineering, with one estimate putting the shortage of engineers at almost half a million.
