“The Society of Historical Metrology, Japan” was established in 1979.　Membership is currently 160 people. Members have diverse experiences including Researchers from former National Research Laboratory of Metrology, Japan Association for Metrology Promotion, Certified Measurers, Collectors of Weighing and Measuring Equipment, and Researchers of History of Science and History of Technology.

The valuable members of this society are able to cover not only the classic historical study of a measuring equipment but also the history of measurement standards. The Society publishes “Bulletin of the Society of Historical Metrology, Japan” for researchers once a year, and issues "Communications in Historical Metrology” three times a year.
Today, the researcher’s interests cover from the beginning of the metrology of BC to the present day. For example, one of the members from the founding the society,. Shigeo Iwata’s study is "The origin of metrology as the civilizations" ( a few thousand years ago) and the recent research, Eiju Matsumoto presenters “History of reading scales which is common to the measuring instruments of analog-to-digital”.

The “Bulletin of the Society” employed 250 research papers since 1979, 22 papers focused to Western countries, and 49 were targeted to Asian countries. In other words, 28% of the Society’s research work contributed to foreign countries out of Japan.

In addition to the study of literature centered, the society began "Oral Interview" in 2010. It is intended to get particular knowledge or experiences from skilled persons related to the Metrology . Listening to real-life experiences of Metrological development which was not available from literatures, it is useful to fill the missing history or work.

In this session, the Society of Historical Metrology presents three papers. 1St is the research of the Society itself, the second is History of length measures, the third is Japanese unique flowmeter development“. Matsumoto presents “History of Society of Historical Metrology”, such as the trends of the paper employed in the Bulletin including, "The origin of metrology as the civilizations" and “Comparison of precise sale reading of the East and the West” including the application to the microbalance of Joseph Black in the 17th century.