In 2000, the Japanese SNA (System of National Accounts), shortly the JSNA was based on the 1993SNA which was made by five international organizations such as the United Nations. Also, the statistics law of Japan was revised in 2007 after 60 years of the former statistics law. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relations of the both SNAs and their problems, and to foresee the circumstance of the JSNA under the new statistics.

According to the 1993SNA, it can be summarized as the following three points. The 1993SNA is to update the 1968SNA to fit new circumstances, to clarify and simplify it, and to harmonize it with other international standards. While the 1993SNA maintained the theoretical framework of the 1968SNA, there were many specific issues and the 1993SNA became relatively the large scale revision of the 1968SNA. Also, it proposed the new viewpoints for the transactions such as FISIM (Financial intermediation services indirectly measured) and the frameworks such as satellite analysis and accounts.

The JSNA has carried on introduction from the 1993 SNA. In the revised items, the JSNA introduced entirely 45 items and partially 22 items, but did not introduce 33 items because of the absence of the relative data, the different situations from Japan and so on. Also six committees were set up to deal with the problems of the JSNA and introduction from the 1993SNA. They have discussed on chair indices, FISIM, improvement of the system, capital stocks, public sectors, the methods of estimation and so on.

The SNA have generally two roles for a consistent statistical picture of the development of an economic system. Firstly it is an organizational schemes for economic statistics. According to this viewpoint, it develops the improvement of basic statistics. Secondly, it serves to facilitate economic analysis, public policy, decision-making and so on. By the way, the new statistic law attached importance to the role of the JSNA and regarded the JSNA as one of the central statistics. It will be useful for the JSNA and improvement of basic statistics.

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