Ichitaro

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Ichitaro
Developed by Justsystems
Latest release Ichitaro 2008 / 9th Feburuary 2008
OS Microsoft Windows, Linux
Genre Word processor
License Proprietary
Website ichitaro.com

Ichitaro (一太郎 ichitarō?) is a Japanese word processor produced by Justsystems, a Japanese software company. Ichitaro occupies the second share in a Japanese word-processing software. It is one of the main product of the company. It's file extension is ".jtd" Ichitaro is bundling "ATOK".

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[edit] History

The company developed the Japanese word processor JS-WORD for the PC-100 in 1983. In the following year, jX-WORD for the IBM JX was released and in the following year, jX-WORD Taro was released for PC-9801. The same year, Ichitaro was released as the definite successor.

In the DOS era, Ichitaro had a considerable market share along with other rivals such as Matsu by Kanri Kougaku Kenkyujyo. However, as Windows became dominant, the market share was largely taken over by Microsoft Word.[1] Some versions of Ichitaro were ported to the Macintosh and to OS/2. In May 2003, the release of a Linux version was announced.

Compact versions, "Ichitaro dash" and "Ichitaro lite" are produced for laptop PCs. As office suite, "Just home" is also available. "Ichitaro smile" is targeted at elementary school students and "Ichitaro jump" at middle and high school students.

On February 1, 2005, sales and production of the software was frozen pending an appeal by the company against a ruling of the Tokyo District Court which states that there is a breach of a patent owned by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

However, on September 30, 2005, Intellectual Property High Court of Japan, which was newly formed in April 2005, has granted Justsystems’ appeal. Because this judgement became a final decision in October 2005, the original decision sentenced by the Tokyo District Court was overturned.

As of April 2007, the latest version is Ichitaro 2007.

[edit] Difference of Ichitaro and Microsoft Word

There is a lot of flexibility on simplified Japanese DTP.

  • auto modificate by Japanese document structure analysis system
  • Easy to use register mark and crop marks, can use printer independent printing system of the adjust text mode
  • easy to print in the 400-character japanese manuscript paper and the japanese brochure.

[edit] References

  1. ^ The Yomiuri Shimbun, pp.9 Tokyo morning edition, April 8, 1998.

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