The Metals Museum, the only one integrated museum of metals in the world, displaying over 5000 items. Among regular members half are from the industry sector.
Membership is fully open to qualified persons abroad.
Directors are mutually elected from 230 Councilors. JIM has 8 local chapters throughout Japan, but does not have overseas chapters. Other publication includes Introductory Courses of Chemical Metallurgy, Contemporary Metallurgy, Metallurgical Engineering Series, Metals Handbook, Metals Data Book, Word Book of Metallurgy and so forth. Proceedings of international conferences and symposia sponsored by JIM are also on sale. Meetings and Conferences JIM holds 3-day Annual Meetings twice a year, in spring and in fall, with presentations of over 2500 papers in total annually.