The Ship Equipment Inspection Society of Japan
Address:
3-32, Kioi-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0094, Japan
Telephone: 03-3261-6611
Facsimile: 03-3261-6979
Purpose:
To carry out inspection of ship equipment as a qualified inspection organization nominated by the Government under the Ship Safety Law and the Marine Pollution Prevention Law, thus contributing to the implementation of relative domestic regulations and the provisions of international conventions relating to IMO.
Chairman: Kenji Ogawa
The Society of Naval Architects of Japan
Address:
2nd Fl., Nippon Zaidan Bldg., 1-15-16, Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0001, Japan
Telephone: 03-3502-2048 / 9
Facsimile: 03-3502-3150
E-mail: office@snaj.or.jp
URL: http://www.snaj.or.jp
Purpose:
To carry out scientific researches for ship and shipbuilding technology for the progress and development of that field.
Chairman: Tadashi Mano
Ship & Ocean Foundation
Address:
6th Fl., Nippon Zaidan Bldg., 1-15-16, Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0001, Japan
Telephone: 03-3502-1887
Facsimile: 03-3502-2033
URL: http://www.sof.or.jp
Purpose:
To help modernize Japan's shipbuilding and related industries, SOF has since its establishment in 1975 been involved with a wide range of activities, such as development of a superconducting magnetohydro-dynamic propulsion ship and CIMS for shipbuilding use, as well as research into shipbuilding technology, to name just a few. In an overall effort to address marine issues, SOF established an Ocean Policy Think Tank in April 2000 based on the principle of man's coexistence with the sea, and initiated researchers into ocean governance and other important themes.
President: Yoshio Kon
The Shipbuilding Research Association of Japan
Address:
Nippon Zaidan Bldg., 1-15-16, Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0001, Japan
Telephone: 03-3502-2132
Facsimile: 03-3504-2350
E-mail: zoken@mb.infoweb.ne.jp
URL: http://village.infoweb.ne.jp/?zoken/
Purpose:
To integrate the knowledge and experiences of industrial experts for the development of the overall technology related to the shipbuilding industry and thereby contribute to the rational development of the industry.
Chairman:
Jiro Hoshino, concurrently Counseller of Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd.
Shipbuilding Research Centre of Japan
Address:
1-3-8, Mejiro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 171-0031, Japan
Telephone: 03-3971-0266
Facsimile: 03-3971-0269
Purpose:
To contribute to the improvement of shipbuilding technologies through model experiments on ships and propellers, technical calculations, designing and supervising, investigations and R & D activities. And to implement research, planning, designing, supervising and testing on Mega-Float (Ultra-large Floating Structure).
President: Shigeo Ohnishi
