From fields studied to fields related to work
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Japanese survey label
Fields at work among people who studied this field
Fields studied by people who work with this field
How to read this network and how Rokugeisha organized it
How does what people studied connect with their work today? This network links respondents’ fields of educational background to the fields they selected as closely related to their current work. Select a field to explore connections leading out of it and into it.
Rokugeisha independently prepared this visualization using open data from Japan’s Cabinet Office. It shows relationships between fields selected by respondents. It does not measure proficiency, the value of an education or personal aptitude. The survey does not follow the same people through their lives.
We mapped the survey options across years using 2025 as a reference, while retaining older categories that were later subdivided as separate nodes. Broad and narrow categories therefore coexist. Links from a legacy category to current fields provide navigation; they do not imply identical scope. The four directions are Rokugeisha’s layout guide, informed by Japanese upper-secondary school subjects and other perspectives. Distances between nodes should not be read as measures of similarity or importance.
The respondent total includes people who answered both the educational-background and current-work field questions. Each line counts distinct people who selected that pairing; one person may contribute to up to three connections. “Other” and “None” are not shown as nodes. Same-field counts are reported separately when a field is selected. Counts are not adjusted for differences in the size or composition of the respondent groups across years or genders.
Labels on the graph omit parenthetical supplements and may be shortened to fit. The selector, connection lists and hover display use full English translations. These are Rokugeisha’s translations, not official Cabinet Office labels. Select a field and open “Japanese survey label” below the graph to check the original wording, including its parentheses.
Source: Japan’s Cabinet Office, e-CSTI human resources analysis and open data (Japanese) / Prepared by Rokugeisha