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I've opened Japanese documents from, AFAIR, at least the Ministry of Immigration, the Ministry of Health/Labour/Welfare and the Ministry of Justice. They all ha

I've opened Japanese documents from, AFAIR, at least the Ministry of Immigration, the Ministry of Health/Labour/Welfare and the Ministry of Justice. They all had the similar properties: manual HTML in the best case, PDF in the worst case. Tables very often with hierarchical data. Lack of overall coherence. It's so similar between Ministries that I have to wonder if it's not just the result of some Japanese governmental directive, or the result of their Education system.

noobermin 7y ago
It sounds like they just organize information differently. It's annoying to us but it's just how they do it. Everyone reading this needs to have a more wholesome historical education. The best example I can think of is read historical math puzzles, or geometry lessons from ancient greece. Organization of information is definitely culturally contingent, even here in the US.