The Japan Environmental Management Association for Industry (JEMAI) is a public corporation organized by the membership of about 1,100 companies. It was established in September 1962, when industrial pollution was becoming a serious concern in Japan.

JEMAI's activities include environmental assessments, technology developments and surveys regarding air and water pollution, noise, vibration and hazardous chemical substances as well as global environmental issues. JEMAI is commissioned as the organizing body of the national examination for Pollution Control Managers. Other activities contain seminars and publications, in addition to international technology transfer which involves projects mainly with south east Asian nations such as Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, and China.

Since 1993, JEMAI's has been expanding activities in promoting coping with from conventional industrial pollution issues to global environmental issues, waste problem issues, and chemical substances management issues which are more diversified and complicated. JEMAI serves as the secretariats in Japan for ISO/TC 207 subcommittees (SC3: Environmental Labeling, SC4: Environmental Performance Evaluation, SC5: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)).

JEMAI has been contributing to developing tools and popularization of LCA, Design for Environment (DfE), Environmental Efficiency, and Environmental Accounting which promotes the environmental management for the members.

JEMAI is engaging in business for qualification and registration system of EMS auditors, Eco-leaf of environmental labeling, and environmental site assessment.

Nobuya Minami
Chairman
Japan Environmental Management Association for Industry