Society always selects by purpose profit.
Substitute Industry, Overseas sift (out flow) of labor intensive industries.

2.Trend away from Shorthand
Japan has been developed its economy in short term and became rich.On the other hand, Cost up has advanced too. Many low added value industries and labours have been dropped out drastically. Graphic Shorthand artisan, Offcials nor Free lancers have been relatively declining by Transcriptionists with Tape recorders and Personal Computers.There are not so many Freelance Shorthand Reporters by Machine and Electronic Machine Shorthand in Japan.

3.Trend of Shorthand marketplace in Japan
(1) Shorthand in the Diet started technical innovation, and stopped traning of Graphic Shorthand few years ago.
(2) Supreme Court is promoting to change Machine Shorthand to Tape-transcriptnists, and stopped training about 10 years ago.
(3) Local Assembly is a fertile market for Freelance Shorthand reports in the Past. Now Transcriptionist company oligopoly this market, became Desert.
(4) Journarism market is special market ,so it is not well understand.
(5) Enterprize and Organization markets are not large market and transcritionists are mainly servicing now.
(6) TV Market and ITC market has bright future now.

4.Shorthand Student
(1) It is very difficult hardle to pass the first grade Certified Reportes examination by Japan Shorthand Association now.
(2) Also it is getting difficult to learn Shorthand theory and translating Shorthand letters for young generations.
(3) So hard in training skill, less benefit is declining year by year.
(4) Investment to building Shorthand skill performance is getting worse. There become low incentive to learn Graphic Shorthand for occupation.

4.Local Assembly market
(1) In old times, Shorthand reporters were lacks so much and seller's market.
(2) But financial deficits are growing, Then SeveralRecord producing Companies appeared and Oligopolied Local Assembly market about 10 years ago by low price tender. Freelance Shorthand reporters are very hard situation now in this field.
(3) Reducing Labour cost, by Fixed Expense Cut Policy,retired Shorthand reportes have not been filled up or moved another sections for reducing Labour.There have been no place for Shorthand reporters to work.
(4)Tape recorders are popularized widely from 1950s in Japan and Japanese Word Processors are popularized ,Substitution of Graphic Shorthand have been fixed.
(5) Benefit Declining
As a Local Public Servant, Official Shorthand Reporters have less benefit than General Public Servants.