The Optical Society of Japan (OSJ) is professional organization of physicists conducting research in

Optics Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it. Optics usually describes the behaviour of visible, ultraviole ...

. The organization was founded in 1952 as a division of the

Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP) is a Japanese group of researchers in the field of applied physics. JSAP originated in 1932 from a voluntary forum of researchers belonging to the University of Tokyo and the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research. During World War ...

(JSAP). It has nearly 2,000 members and is the biggest division of JSAP. The main journal of the society is ''

Optical Review ''Optical Review'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that was established in 1994 and is published by Springer Science+Business Media in partnership with the Optical Society of Japan. The editor-in-chief is Masahiro Yamaguchi. The jou ...

'', and the membership journal is ''Kogaku''.

External links

*http://annex.jsap.or.jp/OSJ/Eng/about.html, OSJ page at the JSAP. *http://annex.jsap.or.jp/OSJ, OSJ page at the JSAP, Japanese version Optics institutions 1952 establishments in Japan Scientific organizations established in 1952 Scientific societies based in Japan {{japan-org-stub