JustSystems

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JustSystems Corporation
株式会社ジャストシステム
Type Public (JASDAQ: 4686)
Industry Computer software
Founded Tokushima City, Tokushima, Japan (1979)
Founder(s) Hatsuko & Kazunori Ukigawa
Headquarters Tokushima City, Tokushima, Japan
Key people Tomoaki Fukura (President)
Products Software and services
Revenue ¥13,088 million (year ending 31 March 2007)
Owner(s) Keyence Corporation (43.96%)
Kazunori Ukigawa (13.43%)
Hatsuko Ukigawa (11.35%)
Employees 916 (2008)
Subsidiaries Justsystem Service Corporation
JustSystems US Holding, Inc.
JustSystems North America, Inc.
JustSystems Canada Inc.
JustSystems Evans Research, Inc.
JustSystems EMEA Ltd.
Dalian Justsystem Co., Ltd.
Website na.justsystems.com

JustSystems Corporation (株式会社ジャストシステム Kabushiki-gaisha Jasuto-Shisutemu?) is a major Japanese software development house. The company is also known as "JustSystem." Its main products are Ichitaro (roughly "JohnnyOne"), a word processor, and Hanako, a graphics package that remains competitive in the Japanese market, despite strong and controversial competitive pressures from Microsoft in the 1990s.

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[edit] Description

JustSystems is based in Tokushima, the capital city of Tokushima Prefecture on Shikoku island of Japan. Its early success was founded on its development of one of the first input methods for Japanese, allowing QWERTY keyboards to be conveniently used to enter Kanji characters. In recent years it has been active in Java- and XML-themed technology development. JustSystems is the only Japanese company participating in the Unicode Consortium as a full member.[1]

[edit] History

  • JustSystems was founded in 1979 by Hatsuko and Kazunori Ukigawa and incorporated on June 2, 1981.
  • In the mid 1990s JustSystems founded and supported Justsystem Pittsburgh Research Center to benefit from computer science research at the nearby Carnegie Mellon University. In 1996, JustSystems bought a Carnegie-Mellon start-up called Claritech, currently called JustSystems Evans Research, Inc.(JSERI), directed by David Evans, which still performs research for the company.
  • In 1997, the company became public following listing on the JASDAQ Securities Exchange (JASDAQ: 4686).
  • In 2006, JustSystems purchased the XMetaL XML authoring suite from Blast Radius to complement its xfy XML development platform.
  • On June 23, 2006, the company changed its English name from "Justsystem Corporation" to "JustSystems Corporation."
  • On April 3, 2009, the company announced that it would increase the capital by allocating new shares to Keyence Corporation.[2] Effective on April 20, 2009, Keyence became the largest shareholder.
  • On October 29, 2009, the co-founders Kazunori Ukigawa and Hatsuko Ukigawa resigned as Chairman and Vice Chairman, respectively. They also resigned from the board.


[edit] References

  1. ^ "Unicode Members-Text Only". Unicode.org. http://www.unicode.org/consortium/memblist.html. Retrieved 2011-07-03. 
  2. ^ http://www.justsystems.com/jp/just/finance/j0904031.pdf

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