一般社団法人軽金属学会

In December 1947, Light Metal Society (LMS), one of the predecessors of the current Japan Aluminium Association was established based on the industrial-academic-government cooperation and a trend toward to improve manufacturing and processing technologies of light metals was growing.

In response to this situation, LMS President, Mr Kikuo Yasuda (the then Managing Director of Nippon Light Metal Co., Ltd.) organized Research Society of Light Metals (RSLM) with 350 members in 1951 under nationwide cooperation and advices of academia in this field.

In this 1951, the first conference (including research study presentations and factory tours) was held.

The first issue of the academic journal “Light Metals” was also published in the same year.

In 1952, RSLM was registered as a scientific society officially by the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture.

In May 1965, RSLM was renamed to Japan Institute of Light Metals (JILM) in May 1965 and reorganizaion was conducted at the same time.

In August 1996, eventually JILM was authorized as a Corporate Juridical Person supervised by the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture.

In April 2011, the juridical personality transited to the General Corporate Judicial Person by the laws related to the reform of the public-interest corporations system issued in December 2008.