About Business and Information System Industries Association (JBMIA)

Japan Business Machine and Information System Industries Association (JBMIA) is the industry organization which aims to contribute the development of the Japanese economy and the improvement of the office environment through the comprehensive development of the Japanese business machine and information system industries and rationalization thereof. The advancement of information technology has brought about sophistication of the age of digitalization and networking and resulted in significant changes in the office environment accordingly. In response to the shift of business emphasis from the hardware to total business solutions including products, JBMIA carries out active committee/group activities regarding important issues that the industries are confronting in and outside Japan by conducting investigations and researches regarding the new policy proposals, international cooperation, prevention of warming, environment preservation, standardization, product safety, etc., by deepening the association with the sales and software-related companies, as well as the manufacturers. Business descriptions: JBMIA engages in a wide range of activities related to the business machine and information system industries, including: ■ Investigation, research and dissemination of information ■ Planning and promotion of efficiency ■ Preparation of the standards and promotion of the standardization ■ Promotion of international relationship and cooperation ■ Promotion of activities related to the environment, safety and quality control ■ Public relations ■ Other activities required to achieve the purpose of this Association Establishment Feb. 17, 1960 : Establishment of Japan Business Machine Makers Association Nov. 1, 1966 : Establishment as an incorporated body Apr. 1, 2002 : Name was changed to Japan Business Machine and Information System Industries Association Apr. 1, 2012 : Changed from the Incorporated Association to the General Incorporated Association Types of membership ■ REGULAR MEMBERS ： * Regular Members are manufacturers of business machine and information systems of the Main products described below. ■ ASSOCIATE MEMBERS ： * Associate Members are other industry players, such as parts/devices manufacturers, sales companies, service and solution providers, who are also able to participate in committees/groups． ■ SUPPORT MEMBERS ： * Support members take advantage of participation in seminars and forum and receiving governmental notifications, regulations and other various information from JBMIA but no committee/group activities allowed. Main products ■ Copying Machine, MFD ■ Page ■ Digital Duplicator ■ Large Format Inkjet Printer ■ Business Inkjet Printer ■ Commercial Digital Printing ■ Data Projector ■ Shredder ■ Document Management System ■ ECR/POS (point-of-sales register) ■ Card and Card System ■ Calculator/Electronic Dictionary ■ Electronic Paper 1 Public Relatuon Committee JBMIA Organization Superintendent Statistic Comittee

Planning Committee Superintendent International Trade Committee

Technology Committee

Standardization Center General Meeting Board Policy Planning Committee Enviroment Committee

Committees Intellectual Property Committee

BMLinkS Project Committee

Reverse Logistic Committee

Service Support Committee

Cybersecurity Committee

Printer & MFD Group

Digital Duplicator Group

Large Format Inkjet Printer Group

Business Inkjet Printer Group

Commercial Digital Printing Group

Each Product Data Projector Group

Shredder Group

Document Management System Group

JBMIA Committee for JTC 1/SC17, SC28, SC35WGs POS System Machine Group

Japanese Committee for IEC/TC108 Mobile System Group

Electronic Paper Consortium 2 Greeting

Japan Business Machine and Information System Industries Association Chairman Takayuki Ikeda

Adviser to the Board of Tec Corporation

My thoughts are first with all the people who have been affected by the novel coronavirus, and I am praying for their speedy recovery. It was not long after the beginning of the new year when the disease spread across the world and caused tremendous affliction on society and the economy. As the pandemic’s impact is considered heavier than that of the Lehman shock, we cannot anticipate at all when it will end amidst so many uncertainties. Under such circumstances, our industrial surroundings, be it public entities or private enterprises, entail social responsibility through SDGs and ESG investment. In the meantime, the surge of a data driven society and the diffusion of artificial intelligence as well as RPA (robotic process automation) are dynamically accelerating work style reform in Japan. Promoting teleworking as a measure to prevent the coronavirus will eventually speed up that trend. I would like to work on JBMIA’s activities, like before, to respond proactively to various needs generated through those environmental changes. Seeking for new value creation, aiming to become an association that contributes toward an innovative society. As the new chairman, I will focus on the following three points as JBMIA’s important themes. Firstly “Global business deployment to contribute to the promotion of SDGs”, secondly “Quick and timely response to social environmental changes”, thirdly “Further enhancement of JBMIA’s presence and operations”. In addition, I would like to deal with any kind of issue so as to implement the management philosophy of JBMIA: “Through continuous innovation of business and information systems, we suggest a new work style and create a global society with vitality.” I sincerely thank you in advance for your kind understanding and valuable support. MAIN ACTIVITIES AND RESULTS OF THE COMMITTEES AND GROUPS: INTRODUCTION OF MAIN ACTIVITIES As our basic policy and motto the JBMIA conducts agile business activities to contribute to the solutions of common key issues for the industries such as promotion of the digitalization and networking, dealing with the global environmental issues, and preparation for changes in users’ needs. Introduction of our activities

Environment/recovery & recycling The environment related various activities such as trend research/handling of regulations in and outside Japan (recovery & recycling and contained chemical materials) and the environmental labels (eco marks, blue angels, etc.) concerning the products under the control of this association have been carried out. The copy machines & MDF group and 12 digital duplicator manufacturers play a central role in building the system to collect used trade-in machines of other companies in sales activities and to bring them to the collected machines exchange center and then to return them to the respective manufacturers. The reuse/recycling by members has been promoted through these activities and the joint logistics of collection of used machines contributes to the reduction of CO2 emission during the transportation. Standardization-related In addition to the standardization activities conducted by each committee/group, the standardization activities to improve the business machine accessibility and user interface and the standardization activities related to the color management have been promoted. The JBMS (the association standards) and the JBMIA-TR (the association standards report) which are the results of such activities are published on our homepage thereby the promotion and dissemination of the association standards have been carried out. Further, the JBMIA as a domestic review body for international standards of ISO and IEC actively conducts activities such as participations in international meetings and proposals of the international standards generated in Japan. Furthermore, we conduct activities to apply set/revised international standards to JIS thereby the promotion and dissemination of such standards have been carried out. International-related In the rapidly changing international environment, as to the global themes in relation to the WTO and APEC, the JBMIA promotes to solve various issues aiming at improvement of the advantage and quality of the industries through the researches and analyses of issues concerning the business operations. For example, the JBMIA has been working on for a long time taking the case of the MFD tax to the WTO. BMLinkS project The JBMIA is coping with the development and use environment of the interface specifications the “BMLinkS” which are able to dramatically improve the connectivity and data compatibility among business machines on the network. In 2006, we have realized the documents distribution infrastructure which is easily able to use scan/storage/print function among business machines of multi-vendors through preparing various industries’ standards and publishing common software including the “comprehensive printer driver”. Furthermore, we promote activities step by step with the purpose of improving convenience of users and IT manager, etc., by publishing the industries’ standards for the office devices in 2008 and by publishing the industries’ standards for the information markings in 2010.

4 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Chairman Takayuki Ikeda Adviser to the Board, TOSHIBA TEC CORPORATION

Senior Vice Chairman Kouichi Tamai President and Representative Director, Fuji Co.,Ltd.

Vice Chairman Toshio Homma Executive Vice President & CTO, Canon Inc.

Vice Chairman Shoei Yamana President and CEO, Representative Executive Officer, , INC.

Vice Chairman Katsuaki Nomura President & COO,

Vice Chairman Minoru Usui Chairman and Director, Corporation

Vice Chairman Yoshinori Yamashita President and CEO, COMPANY, LTD.

Director Kazuhiro Kashio President & CEO, COMPUTER CO., LTD.

Director Norihiko Ina President, Document Solutions Inc.

Director Toshikazu Koike Representative Director & Chairman, , Ltd.

Director Akira Hayama President & CEO,

President Hirotoshi Tanaka Japan Business Machine and Information System Industries Association

Executive Vice President Hiroshi Hashidume Japan Business Machine and Information System Industries Association

Superintendent Takashi Inoue Oki Data Corporation Managing Executive Officer

Superintendent Daisuke Murata President, Murata Machinery, Ltd. REGULAR MEMBERS (23 companies) IRISOHYAMA INC. Corporation NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. Co., Ltd. Co., Ltd. Limited CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD. FUJIFILM Corporation Canon Inc. BROTHER INDUSTRIES, LTD. KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. , Ltd. , INC. MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD. SHARP CORPORATION MURATA MACHINERY, LTD. Seiko Epson Corporation MEIKO SHOKAI CO., LTD. Home Entertainment & Sound Products Inc. RICOH COMPANY, LTD. DUPLO CORPORATION RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION TOSHIBA TEC CORPORATION

ASSOCIATE MEMBERS (15 companies)

ACCO BRANDS JAPAN K. K. TOYO Corporation NEC Platforms, Ltd. HP Japan Inc. OKAMURA CORPORATION NIPPON EXPRESS CO., LTD. GRAPE SYSTEMS INC. Japan Quality Assurance Organization Cosmos Corporation Fellowes Japan K.K. SATO HOLDINGS CORPORATION Microwave Factory Co.,Ltd. Sky Co., LTD. UL japan,Inc. TÜV Rheinland Japan Ltd.

SUPPORTING MEMBERS (3 companies)

E Ink Japan Inc. - Terminal Solutions, Corp. KYOCERA CORPORATION COMMITTEES Policy planning committees Planning Committee It deliberates issues related to main activities of this association and examines proposals to the board of directors. Public Relation Committee It carries out transmission of information related to the activities of this association, and studies and carries out dissemination of the public relation. Statistic Committee It examines and carries out surveys and statistic of the products under the control of this association. Committees by issueCommittees by issue International Trade Committee As to global issues it works with the Japanese government based on the activities concerned through the investigation, analysis and industries’ consensus opinion concerning activities related to trade issues and the industries’ measures against rapid development of emerging markets. Technology Committee It tries to solve technical problems by conducting trends research and reviewing its measures concerning the product safety, EMC (electromagnetic compatibility), communication, human exposure to electromag- netic ray, new technology trends, usability, and packing related regulations trends. Standardization Center It carries out the standardization to meet the color and network era, the improvement of users’ interface convenience, the improvement of accessibility to business machines giving consideration to the older persons and persons with disabilities, promotion of standardization activities of the association, and the preparation of the JIS drafts. Environment Committee It copes with solution of the environmental issues by conducting comprehensive investigations and researches into social trends in business machines and information system industries in and outside Japan and the environmental issues toward the global environment sustainability and improvement. Intellectual Property Committee It studies industrial rights, legal/copy rights, and measures against counterfeit goods, and carries out consensus building in the industries, and carries out activities to improve various institutions and makes proposals in cooperation with patent office in and outside Japan. BMLinkS Project Committee It works on the standardization for connectivity among business machines on the network. Reverse Logistic Committee It promotes the system to collect used business machines. It operates the system for exchanging/recycling efficiently other manufacturers’ copying machines & MFD collected from users as trade-ins. Service Support Committee It conducts examinations of service/support activities, skill-up plans for the customer engineers (CE), improvement of the service/support level to provide. Cybersecurity Committee In alliance with overseas/domestic govermental body, industrial group, and/or cybersecurity related groups, our committee analyzes and studies cybersecurity policy, regulation, rules, orders and/or requirements, takes part in standarization process,and/or works for cybersecurity incident issues within or relating to the area of office equipment. Japanese committees for ISO/IEC Japanese Committee for ISO information technology It prepares and proposes ISO international standards, and deliberates the international standards. (Handling fields: Business machines, card and individual identification, and users’ interface related to information devices.) No. 108 committee It provides the international standards (IEC) with proposals related to the safety of IT devices, audio/video products and related electronic device parts and coordinates the consistency of technical standards for electrical appliances. 7 GROUPS

Groups for each product

Printer & MFD Group It promotes energy saving and 3 Rs (recycling, reusing, reducing), standardizes the terms/specification forms, examines comprehensible indications for users, grasps/reviews/handles properly problems related to the distribution. Digital Duplicator Group It promotes standardization and 3 Rs, disseminates the products, and grasps the market trends. Large Format Inkjet Printer Group Safety concerning the use environment in the large format inkjet printer field, examination of standardization of the method to describe the basic specification in the catalog, etc. Business Inkjet Printer Group In the field of inkjet printers for business use, standardization of methods for describing basic specifications in catalogs, examine of standardization of measurement methods for published data related to TCO, etc. Commercial Digital Printing Group It standardizes the terminology and indications for users, promotes the enhancement/enlargement of the digital printing workflow. Data Projector Group It standardizes the performance indicators, measurement methods/conditions and terms, promotes the standardization, promotes dissemination of PJLink, handles safety standards for new light sources. Shredder Group It conducts investigations and researches into the safety, standards, regulations, environment, and recycling. Document Management System Group It carries out the development of document management system (DMS) and promotes its diffusion so as to satisfy both “securing corporate transparency” and “strengthening of managerial power” through the document information. POS System Machine group It understands the market trend of ECR/POS system in and outside Japan, and conducts investigations and researches into the next generation of POS system. Mobile System Group It provides proposals for the mobile networks and devices applications, conducts investigation and analysis of the market and technology trends concerning mobile related devices such as the calculator and electronic dictionary, and carries out the standardization and self generated statistics. Electronic Paper Consortium It conducts researches into the market and technology trends in and outside Japan, carries out researches into the diffusion scene and users’ needs and conducts researches into the standardization so as to realize the global diffusion of the electronic paper as the third media. 8 Management philosophy of JBMIA

Management philosophy of JBMIA

Through continuous innovation of business machines and information systems, we suggest a new work style and make a global society with the vitality.

The figure which there should be

• Being the professional group which can foresee the future of the industry in global, and analyze information, perform a policy proposal.

• Pursuing relief, security, the convenience of the customer thoroughly.

• Leading realization of a low carbon and recycling society.

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