JustSystems

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JustSystems Corporation 株式会社ジャストシステム
Type	Public (JASDAQ: 4686)
Founded	Tokushima City, Tokushima, Japan (1979)
Headquarters	Tokushima City, Tokushima, Japan
Key people	Kazunori Ukigawa, President and CEO; Hatsuko Ukigawa, Executive Vice President and CTO
Industry	computer software
Products	software and services
Revenue	¥12,213 million yen (year ending 31 March 2006)
Employees	669 (March 2006)
Website	www.justsystem.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.

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. Its input method editor ATOK is recognized as one of the most accurate and reliable Japanese IMEs. 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]

JustSystems was founded in 1979 by Hatsuko and Kazunori Ukigawa and incorporated on June 2, 1981. Kazunori Ukigawa remains President and CEO. Hatsuko Ukigawa serves as Executive Vice President and CTO.

In the mid 1990's JustSystems founded and supported Justsystem Pittsburgh Research Center to benefit from computer science research at the nearby Carnegie Mellon University.

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."