JustSystems was founded in 1979 by
Hatsuko and
Kazunori Ukigawa, and was incorporated in June 1981. Early in the company's history, it created one of the first computer
input methods for Japanese users, creating compatibility between
QWERTY keyboards and
Kanji characters. In the mid-1990s, JustSystems founded the
Justsystem Pittsburgh Research Center near
Carnegie Mellon University. In 1996, JustSystems purchased Claritech, a Carnegie Mellon startup run by
David Evans, and renamed it JustSystems Evans Research (JSERI). In 1997, JustSystems went public and was listed on the
JASDAQ Securities Exchange. In 2006, JustSystems purchased the
XMetaL XML authoring suite from
Blast Radius to complement its
xfy XML development platform. In 2009,
Keyence Corporation became the largest shareholder of JustSystems. Later that year, Kazunori and Hatsuko Ukigawa resigned from the company. ==See also==