ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5-N1809

                 Japan's National Activity Report
                    at the WG5 Las Vegas meeting
                        in Feb 15-19, 2010
                        by TAKATA Masayuki

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

The Japanese version of Fortran 2003, JIS X 3001-1:2009, was published
in November, and is available from JSA by a web search for
     JIS X 3001-1:2009
The PDF version is image-based, while the committee worked hard to create
a copyable, searchable PDF.

Japan supported the minor correction to the balloted TC4 document, and
voted for the Fortran 2008 FCD.  There are still strong objection, both
philosophical and practical, to the coarrays feature, but seeing no hope
that WG5 separates it from the base language, we finally decided to go
along the way WG5 agreed with.