The Typequick software package, from Australian Typequick Pty Ltd, has found a ready market in Japan, which has come so late to keyboarding skills because the academic orientation of the education system, the tradition of calligraphy and the difficulty of marrying the written language with a manageable keyboard: Typequick claims to teach people to type in 15 to 20 hours, and was nominated as the best-known keyboard training course in Japan in a newspaper poll: the introduction of software-controlled romaji – Roman – to kana to kanji conversion from an English keyboard has brought down the barriers; Typequick brought its package to Japan and converted it in 1986, and has had IBM Japan as a long-time supporter – the company recently gave Typequick its largest order, worth $1m.
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