Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS) (日本工業規格, Nippon Kōgyō Kikaku) specifies the standards used for industrial activities in Japan. The standardization process is coordinated by the Japanese Industrial Standards Committee and published through the Japanese Standards Association. Japanese Industrial Standards Committee is composed of many nationwide committees and plays vital role in standardizing activities in Japan.
In the Meiji era, private enterprises were responsible for making standards although the Japanese government did have standards and specification documents for procurement purposes for certain articles, such as munitions.
These were summarized to form an official standard (old Japanese Engineering Standard (JES)) in 1921. During World War II, simplified standards were established to increase matériel output.
The present Japanese Standards Association was established after Japan's defeat in 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 foundation for the present Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS).
The Industrial Standardization Law was revised in 2004 and the "JIS mark" (product certification system) was changed; since October 1, 2005, the new JIS mark has been applied upon re-certification. Use of the old mark was allowed during the three-year transition period (until September 30, 2008), and every manufacturer obtaining new or renewing certification under the authority's approval has been able to use the new JIS mark. Therefore all JIS-certified Japanese products have had the new JIS mark since October 1, 2008.
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:
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)
JIS C 5062 – Marking codes for resistors and capacitors
JIS C 5063 – Preferred number series for resistors and capacitors
JIS C 7001 Type designation system for electronic tubes
JIS C 7012 Type designation system for discrete semiconductor devices
JIS C 8800 Glossary of terms for fuel cell power systems
D – Automotive Engineering
E – Railway Engineering
F – Ship building
G – Ferrous Materials and Metallurgy
H – Nonferrous materials and metallurgyJIS H 2105 – Pig lead
JIS H 2107 – Zinc ingots
JIS H 2113 – Cadmium metal
JIS H 2116 – Tungsten powder and tungsten carbide powder
JIS H 2118 – Aluminum alloy ingots for die castings
JIS H 2121 – Electrolytic cathode copper
JIS H 2141 – Silver bullion
JIS H 2201 – Zinc alloy ingots for die casting
JIS H 2202 – Copper alloy ingots for castings
JIS H 2211 – Aluminium alloy ingots for castings
JIS H 2501 – Phosphor copper metal
JIS H 3100 – Copper and copper alloy sheets, plates and strips
JIS H 3110 – Phosphor bronze and nickel silver sheets, plates and strips
JIS H 3130 – Copper beryllium alloy, copper titanium alloy, phosphor bronze, copper-nickel-tin alloy and nickel silver sheets, plates and strips for springs
JIS H 3140 – Copper bus bars
JIS H 3250 – Copper and copper alloy rods and bars
JIS H 3260 – Copper and copper alloy wires
JIS H 3270 – Copper beryllium alloy, phosphor bronze and nickel silver rods, bars and wires
JIS H 3300 – Copper and copper alloy seamless pipes and tubes
JIS H 3320 – Copper and copper alloy welded pipes and tubes
JIS H 3330 – Plastic covered copper tubes
JIS H 3401 – Pipe fittings of copper and copper alloys
JIS H 4000 – Aluminium and aluminium alloy sheets and plates, strips and coiled sheets
JIS H 4001 – Painted aluminium and aluminium alloy sheets and strips
JIS H 4040 – Aluminium and aluminium alloy rods, bars and wires
JIS H 4080 – Aluminium and aluminium alloys extruded tubes and cold-drawn tubes
JIS H 4090 – Aluminium and aluminium alloy welded pipes and tubes
JIS H 4100 – Aluminium and aluminium alloy extruded shape
JIS H 4160 – Aluminium and aluminium alloy foils
JIS H 4170 – High purity aluminium foils
JIS H 4301 – Lead and lead alloy sheets and plates
JIS H 4303 – DM lead sheets and plates
JIS H 4311 – Lead and lead alloy tubes for common industries
JIS H 4461 – Tungsten wires for lighting and electronic equipments
JIS H 4463 – Thoriated tungsten wires and rods for lighting and electronic equipment
JIS H 4631 – Titanium and titanium alloy tubes for heat exchangers
JIS H 4635 – Titanium and titanium alloy welded pipes
JIS H 5401 – White metal
JIS H 8300 – Thermal spraying―zinc, aluminium and their alloys
JIS H 8601 – Anodic oxide coatings on aluminium and aluminium alloys
JIS H 8602 – Combined coatings of anodic oxide and organic coatings on aluminium and aluminium alloys
JIS H 8615 – Electroplated coatings of chromium for engineering purposes
JIS H 8641 – Zinc hot dip galvanizings
JIS H 8642 – Hot dip aluminized coatings on ferrous products
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 larger B series)
Q – Management System
JIS Q 9001 - Quality management systems - requirements
JIS Q 14001 - Environment management systems - requirements with guidance for use
JIS Q 15001 - Personal information protection management systems - requirements
JIS Q 20000-1 - IT service management - specification
JIS Q 27001 - Information security management systems - requirements
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 the ISO 646 7-bit character set
JIS X 0202:1998 – Japanese national standard which corresponds to the ISO 2022 character encoding
JIS X 0208:1997 – 7-bit and 8-bit double byte coded kanji sets for information interchange
JIS X 0212:1990 – 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 0510:2004 – QR Code
JIS X 3001-1:2009, JIS X 3001-2:2002, JIS X 3001-3:2000 – Fortran programming language
JIS X 3002:2001 – COBOL
JIS X 3005-1:2010 – SQL
JIS X 3010:2003 – C programming language
JIS X 3014:2003 – C++
JIS X 3017:2011, JIS X 3017:2013 – Programming languages – Ruby
JIS X 3030:1994 – POSIX - repealed in 2010
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 6241:2004 – 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 6302-6:2011 - Identification cards -- Recording technique -- Part 6: Magnetic stripe -- High coercivity
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
JIS Z 8301:2011 – Rules for the layout and drafting of Japanese Industrial Standards
JIS Z 9112:2012 – Classification of fluorescent lamps and light emitting diodes by chromaticity and colour rendering property