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>I doubt it. Japanese companies have been using cutesy-wutesy cartoons
>in their manuals for ages. Not only in end-user-manuals aimed at
>foreign morons, but in their domestic technical manuals aimed at
>professionals.
The Japanese seem to like comics. There's a much greater market for them
among adults than there is in the USA.
Furthermore, while most Japanese professionals are pretty comfortable with
the 1000 most common kanji, a surprisingly large proprtion of them have
difficulty reading complex material. ...RM
