April 2014

ON ETHICS
Code of Ethics Printed in Japan

Earlier this year, the NSPE Code of Ethics was published in Japanese as part of a textbook on engineering ethics.

The Japan Society of Professional Engineers helped publish the book, Introduction to Engineering Ethics, which included an abridged translation of the Code. The “book will be distributed to thousands of young Japanese engineering students in national technical colleges throughout Japan,” says JSPE President Takeya Kawamura, P.E.

The opportunity to include the Code of Ethics in the text came after the Japan Society posted a fully translated version of the Code on their website (which is available for download as a PDF). Later, JSPE was contacted by a Japanese publisher about including the Code in a revised edition of the textbook they were developing.

This represents the latest step in the close relationship between NSPE and JSPE, as highlighted in the 2001 affiliation agreement signed by the two societies.

Visit http://jspe.org/engineeringethics.html for the Japanese-translated Code of Ethics.