Up to now many countries in the world have different pressure vessel regulations, different standards and different certification practices to assure that pressure vessels are safe. In order to remove these technical barriers to trade and permit the free movement of goods, new pressure vessel systems are in course of development in both the European Union (EU) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). It is code strategy of pressure vessels between EU and ASME. In this paper, Japanese code strategy of pressure vessels is briefly discussed.
