Japanese Industrial Standards

The JISC is composed of many nationwide committees and plays a vital role in standardizing activities across Japan.

In the Meiji era, private enterprises were responsible for making standards, although the Japanese government too had standards and specification documents for procurement purposes for certain articles, such as munitions.

During World War II, simplified standards were established to increase matériel output.

The present Japanese Standards Association was established in 1946, a year after Japan's defeat in World War II.

Therefore all JIS-certified Japanese products manufactured since October 1, 2008, have had the new JIS mark.

JIS symbol (adopted October 1, 2005). No Unicode symbol exists, nor does a proposal for inclusion.
The old JIS symbol (used until September 30, 2008). This symbol has been included in Unicode since version 1.0.1 as U+3004 〄 JAPANESE INDUSTRIAL STANDARD SYMBOL.
Construction of the symbol