| | April SN Japanese Standards Association Feature Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | These efforts, which relate to industrial standardization and quality management, are commissioned by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the Japan International Cooperation Agency, the Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship, and the UN Industrial Development Organization. |
 | | The objectives of the project are to actively develop international standards that can be adopted nationally by each member country and are applicable to the global market, as well as to encourage the submission of international standards proposals from Asian Pacific countries. |
 | | We pledge to continue this support by actively implementing projects that are designed to promote Japans standardization policies both now and in the future, particularly in terms of its cooperation with fellow standardization bodies in Europe, across Asia and of course in the United States, the leaders in standardization. |
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