Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS) specifies the standards used for industrial activities in Japan. The standardization process is coordinated by Japanese Industrial Standards Committee and published through Japanese Standards Association. Image File history File links JIS symbol, from unicode font: 〄 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Standardization, in the context related to technologies and industries, is the process of establishing a technical standard among competing entities in a market, where this will bring benefits without hurting competition. ...

History

In the Meiji era, private enterprises were responsible for making standards. However, the Japanese government did have standards and specification documents for procurement purposes for certain articles, such as munitions. History of Japan Paleolithic Jomon Yayoi Yamato period ---Kofun period ---Asuka period Nara period Heian period Kamakura period Muromachi period Azuchi-Momoyama period ---Nanban period Edo period Meiji period Taisho period Showa period ---Japanese expansionism ---Occupied Japan ---Post-Occupation Japan Heisei The Meiji period (Japanese: Meiji Jidai 明治時代 ) (1868–1912...

These were summarized to form an official standard (old JES) in 1921. During World War II, simplified standards were established to increase matériel output. Combatants Allies: • Poland, • UK & Commonwealth, • France/Free France, • Soviet Union, • USA, • China, ...and others• Axis: • Germany, • Italy, • Japan, • ...and others Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total: 50 million Full list Military dead: 8 million Civilian dead: 4 million Total: 12 million Full list World War II... Matériel (from the French for equipment or hardware, related to the word material) is a term used in English to refer to the equipment and supplies in military and commercial supply chain management. ...

The present Japanese Standards Association were established after Japan's defeat of World War II in 1945. The Japanese Industrial Standards Committee regulations were promulgated in 1946, Japanese standards (new JES) was formed.

The Industrial Standardization Law was enacted in 1949, which forms the legal foundations for the present Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS).

The Industrial Standardization Law was revised in 2004 and the "JIS mark" (product certification system) was changed.

Standards classification and numbering

Standards are named like "JIS X 0208:1997", where X denotes area division, followed by four digits (or five digits for some of the standards corresponding ISO standards), and the revision release year. Divisions of JIS and significant standards are: ISO has many meanings: Iso is the stem of the Latin transliteration of the Greek word ίσος (ísos, meaning equal). The iso- prefix in English derives from this and means equality or similarity. ...

• A - Civil Engineering and Architecture
• B - Mechanical Engineering
  • JIS B 7021-1989 : Classification and Water Resistibility of Water Resistant Watches for General Use
  • JIS B 7512-1993 : Steel tape measures
  • JIS B 7516-1987 : Metal Rules
• C - Electronic and Electrical Engineering
  • JIS C 0920:2003 : Degrees of protection provided by enclosures (IP Code)
• D - Automotive Engineering
• E - Railway Engineering
• F - Shipbuilding
• G - Ferrous Materials and Metallurgy
• H - Nonferrous Materials and Metallurgy
• K - Chemical Engineering
• L - Textile Engineering
• M - Mining
• P - Pulp and Paper
  • JIS P 0138-61 (JIS P 0138:1998): process finished paper size (ISO 216 with a slightly different B series)
• Q - Management System
• R - Ceramics
• S - Domestic Wares
• T - Medical Equipment and Safety Appliances
• W - Aircraft and Aviation
• X - Information Processing
  • JIS X 0201:1997 : Japanese national variant of ISO 646
  • JIS X 0202:1998 : Japanese national standard which corresponds to ISO 2022
  • JIS X 0208:1997 : 7-bit and 8-bit double byte coded KANJI sets for information interchange
  • JIS X 0212:1990 : Code of the supplementary Japanese graphic character set for information interchange
  • JIS X 0213:2004 : 7-bit and 8-bit double byte coded extended Kanji sets for information interchange
  • JIS X 0221-1:2001 : Japanese national standard which corresponds to ISO 10646
  • JIS X 0401:1973 : To-do-fu-ken (prefecture) identification code
  • JIS X 0402:2003 : Identification code for cities, towns and villages
  • JIS X 0405:1994 : Commodity classification code
  • JIS X 0408:2004 : Identification code for universities and colleges
  • JIS X 0501:1985 : Bar code symbol for uniform commodity code
  • JIS X 3001-1:1998, JIS X 3001-2:2002, JIS X 3001-3 : Fortran programming language
  • JIS X 3002:1992 : COBOL
  • JIS X 3005-1:2002 : SQL
  • JIS X 3010:2003 : C programming language
  • JIS X 3014:2003 : C++
  • JIS X 3030:1994 : POSIX
  • JIS X 4061:1996 : Collation of Japanese character string
  • JIS X 6002:1980 : Keyboard layout for information processing using the JIS 7 bit coded character set
  • JIS X 6054-1:1999 : MIDI
  • JIS X 6241:1997 : 120 mm DVD -- Read-only disk
  • JIS X 6243:1998 : 120 mm DVD Rewritable Disk (DVD-RAM)
  • JIS X 6245:1999 : 80 mm (1.23GB/side) and 120 mm (3.95GB/side) DVD-Recordable-Disk (DVD-R)
  • JIS X 9051:1984 : 16-dots matrix character patterns for display devices
  • JIS X 9052:1983 : 24-dots matrix character patterns for dot printers
• Z - Miscellaneous

ISO 216 specifies international standard (ISO) paper sizes, used in most countries in the world today. ... JIS X 0201, developed in 1969, was the first Japanese character encoding to become widely used. ... ISO 646 is an ISO standard that specifies a 7 bit character code from which several national standards are derived, the best known of which is ASCII. Since the portion of ISO 646 shared by all countries specified only the letters used in the English alphabet, other countries using the... ISO 2022, more formally ISO/IEC 2022, is an ISO standard (equivalent to the ECMA standard ECMA-35) specifying a technique for including multiple character sets in a single character encoding. ... JIS X 0208 is a Japanese Industrial Standard defining a set of kanji indexed by a pair of integers from 1 to 94 (this is known as the kuten pair of the kanji). ... The Universal Character Set is a character encoding that is defined by the international standard ISO/IEC 10646. ... Fortran (also FORTRAN) is a statically typed, compiled, programming language originally developed in the 1950s and still heavily used for scientific computing and numerical computation half a century later. ... COBOL is a third-generation programming language. ... SQL (commonly expanded to Structured Query Language - see History for the terms derivation) is the most popular computer language used to create, modify and retrieve data from relational database management systems. ... The C Programming Language, Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, the original edition that served for many years as an informal specification of the language The C programming language is a standardized imperative computer programming language developed in the early 1970s by Dennis Ritchie for use on the Unix operating system. ... C++ (pronounced see plus plus, IPA: ) is a general-purpose computer programming language. ... POSIX is the collective name of a family of related standards specified by the IEEE to define the application programming interface (API) for software compatible with variants of the Unix OS. They are formally designated as IEEE 1003 and the international standard name is ISO/IEC 9945. ... Musical Instrument Digital Interface, or MIDI, is a system designed to transmit information between electronic musical instruments. ... It has been suggested that Dual layer recording be merged into this article or section. ... You can recognize a DVD-RAM immediately because visually there are lots of little rectangles distributed on the surface of the data carrier. ... A DVD+R disc The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ...

See also

• ISO
• IEC
• Japanese Agriculture Standards
• Japanese typographic symbols gives the Unicode symbol for the Japanese industrial standard.

Logo of the International Organization for Standardization The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from national standards bodies. ... The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) is an international standards organization dealing with electrical, electronic and related technologies. ... This page lists Japanese typographic symbols which are not included in kana or kanji. ...

External links

• Japanese Industrial Standards Committee
• Japanese Standards Association
• Details on the history of JIS (in Japanese)