About JARI

About JARI

Japan Automobile Research Institute (JARI), an incorporated foundation, transferred to Japan Automobile Research Institute as a general incorporated foundation on April 1, 2012.

This research institute was born in April 1969 as Automobile High-Speed Proving Ground Foundation, and was subsequently reorganized into an organization to conduct comprehensive research on automobiles. It has since engaged in activities to develop the automobile industry and to advance automobile technology in Japan by performing neutral and public-benefit activities as a test-and-research organization and a public-service corporation that has the mission of contributing to sound progress of the automotive society.

After entering the 21st century, diversification of automobile roles, increased environmental restrictions concerning automobiles, intensified international competition, and sophistication of automobile-related technology advanced. The importance of cooperation among a wide range of organizations beyond the conventional boundaries of technical domains and industries is therefore increasing in all social fields including sciences and industries. The Japan Electric Vehicle Association (JEVA), that had engaged in decision, diffusion, and public relations activities of standards for electric vehicles including electric automobiles, merged with the Association of Electronic Technology for Automobile Traffic and Driving (JSK), that performed research and development as well as diffusion and promotion activities for technologies to integrate vehicles and information, in July 2003.

Through this process, we have sought to further deepen cooperation with the automobile and related industries as well as a quite wide range of industries such as the energy, electric machinery, information, and communications industries. We have also endeavored to expand business areas, promote pioneering research to understand the future, and diffuse next-generation vehicles by fully utilizing the technology and knowledge accumulated in the three organizations.

Our research institutes were recently reorganized into Japan Automobile Research Institute, a general incorporated foundation, and we will contribute to further advancement of the automotive society in the 21st century by maintaining our neutral and public-benefit activities.