ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5-N1780

                Japan's National Activity Report
                   at the WG5 Las Vegas meeting
                        in May 4-8, 2009
                       by TAKATA Masayuki

IPSJ/ITSCJ/SC22/Fortran WG has 9 active members (6 from vendors and 4 
from universities), and almost monthly meets face to face for 3 hours.

The translation work of Fortran 2003, started in April, 2005, finished
last year, but the final editing and indexing process needed more time
than expected, and it will be published as JIS X 3001-1:2009.

Japan supports UK's view stated in the National Activity Report N1777 
that it is premature to proceed to the FCD stage while some features 
are still actively being developed.  Having this situation, additional 
several months of delay in the development schedule for Fortran 2008 
would be permissible, to ensure such features are well developed, and, 
at the same time, Fortran 2003 becomes widely implemented and used.