Our times call for quality in financial planning. By promoting the education
of responsible and highly competent financial planners, we contribute to
citizens' financial well-being.
In recent years, there has been a dramatic changes in Japanese citizens'
life style; a desire to pursue a better way of living; a rapid growth in
an aging population; financial services deregulation; and social pension
reform that affects individual living environment. In an era of life expectancies
of 80-plus years, comprehensive asset planning = financial planning based
on individual life planning has increasing demand, as has already been widely implemented in
the United States and other countries, in order to realize stable and sound
financial futures.
Under such an environment, the Japan Association for Financial Planners
(JAFP) was established as a nonprofit organization in November 1987 to
ensure financial planning suited to Japanese environment and to contribute
to Japan's economy and improve its citizens' financial well-being by fostering
and organizing financial planners. In order to fulfill this purpose, JAFP
has been engaging in various activities to provide sound financial planning
of high standard, first and foremost through a certification for qualified
financial planners. In June 2001 JAFP was recognized as a Specified Nonprofit
Organization (NPO corporation according to the Nonprofit Activities Promotion
Law) and made a fresh start, with two core objectives:
- To enlighten and promote financial planning to the general public.
- To foster financial planners as financial planning professionals.
In April 2002, financial planning was established as a skilled worker certification
system under the Human Resources Development Promotion Law. Successful
examinees thus became eligible for national accreditation as Certified
Skilled Worker of Financial Planning (Certified Skilled Worker of FP ). This certification system was evidence that the concept of financial
planning was publicly recognized as necessary and beneficial to Japanese
society.In June 2002, JAFP was appointed designated institution to conduct
and administer the Certified Skilled Worker of Financial Planning examination.
JAFP seeks active communication and networking with domestic and foreign
financial planning-related institutions, engages in public-interest activities,
and to foster highly competent financial planners to resolve the increasingly
challenging financial planning needs for the future. In so doing, JAFP
seeks to contribute to improving the financial well-being of Japanese citizens.
Hiroshi Kato, President
Non-profit Organization Japan Association for Financial Planners
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