
is a Japanese software development house. The company's main products were a word processor,
Ichitaro ("JohnnyOne"), a Japanese input method,
ATOK. In 2010s, they focus on correspondence education and enterprise software.
Description
JustSystems is based in
Tokushima on
Shikoku island in Japan. Its most recent business has focused on
Java and
XML-themed technology development. As of 2012, JustSystems is the only Japanese full member of the
Unicode
Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard,The formal version reference is is an information technology standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. The standard, ...
Consortium.
History
JustSystems was founded in 1979 by
Hatsuko and
Kazunori Ukigawa, and was incorporated in June 1981. Early in the company's history, it created one of the first computer
input methods for Japanese users, creating compatibility between
QWERTY
QWERTY () is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets. The name comes from the order of the first six keys on the top left letter row of the keyboard ( ). The QWERTY design is based on a layout created for the Sholes and Glidden ty ...
keyboards and
Kanji
are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still used, along with the subse ...
characters. In the mid-1990s, JustSystems founded the
Justsystem Pittsburgh Research Center near
Carnegie Mellon University. In 1996, JustSystems purchased Claritech, a Carnegie Mellon startup run by
David Evans David, Dave, or Dai Evans may refer to:
Academics
* Sir David Emrys Evans (1891–1966), Welsh classicist and university principal
* David Evans (microbiologist) (1909–1984), British microbiologist
* David Stanley Evans (1916–2004), British a ...
, and renamed it JustSystems Evans Research (JSERI). In 1997, JustSystems went public and was listed on the
JASDAQ Securities Exchange.
In 2006, JustSystems purchased the
XMetaL XML authoring suite from
Blast Radius to complement its
xfy XML development platform. In 2009,
Keyence Corporation became the largest shareholder of JustSystems. Later that year, Kazunori and Hatsuko Ukigawa resigned from the company.
See also
*
Justsystem Pittsburgh Research Center
References
External links
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Ticker of the company in Google Finance
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Software companies of Japan
Companies based in Tokushima Prefecture
Software companies established in 1979
Japanese brands
Companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
Japanese companies established in 1979