JAIP (Japan Association of International Publications) is a non-profit trade association of over 70 books and periodicals importers, wholesalers and retailers of all subject areas and all the foreign languages from countries worldwide. The organization also has welcomed warehousing, transportation, and other logistics companies which have connections to the foreign publications trade in Japan. JAIP has its origin in 1941 and changed its organization name from JBIA (Japan Book Importers Association) to the present JAIP in 1999.