For "creation" and "change" of an information-oriented society,LIM Corporation Ltd had established in 1988. The LIM story began this time. The things what we had started at beginning was ...

One chilly day with blue sky of January 1988, LIM has been established. A company without management base and results to be evaluated in industry in short period is to win a recognition in world market, not in Japanese market.
We assume that if our technology is admitted by world market, we will be accepted automatically in Japanese market.
The action we took was to develop products exclusively for western market. There was no company that specialized in the Western languages fonts and headquartered a company in Japan. This business strategy worked perfectly.
In late 1980's, our fonts have been licensed to many information devices such as printers that manufactured in Japan were exported to the world. Since the world market is much larger than the Japanese market, we assume considerable number of people have used our fonts, and we have contributed to the development of the informationization industry.

In 1990, as the font business gets on the right track, technical demands other than the supply of the license of the font product have risen. The manufacturer has requested the technical improvement of product evaluation from our company. Most of Japanese manufactures were concentrated in developing a new products in those days, and there were no method nor technique for multilaterally evaluating the perfection of new products.
We have developed the product evaluation tool by the specific technology based on the Testing Engineering theory of the United States to meet the demand of clients.
"Quality Assurance" was newly started based on this technology.
We will continuously be a partner of information device manufactures with advanced technology that arose from an original aspect in the future.

In 1994, the experience and results to have fought in the global market were turned on to a Japanese market.
We analyzed the market scale, trend, and the rivals products' performance and price in the beginning. As the result, the power chart of the font company was already completed in the print and the publication industry, and we also judged that there is no farther technical technical breakthrough.
We assume that characters displays optically with LCD and LED will become a large market in the near future, in addition to ordinary printing on paper with ink.
We realized that the priority of the font is no longer a beauty of characters, but a visibility and easy to read of characters.
We have solved this theme by basic research, and applied the artificial intelligence technology to Japanese font.
As the result of basic research and development, we have hold 50% of share in cellular phone market. Our Japanese font excels in visibility and easy to read. We believe it was a result of feeding back the marketing research data to the new product development.
Today, LIM Japanese fonts are equipped in cellular phone, PDA, the car navigation, the consumer electronic products, and the electronic bulletin board, and etc, and used by many people.

We announced a scalable font rendering-engine for a mobile phones ,that is the first one in Japanese market,in a venture fair held in Tokyo international forum in January, 2004. The contents were introduced in NIKKEI press release and became an opening scene of a play of a scalable font engine for mobile 3G.
The scalable engine deployment to a mobile phone and various viewers begins in 2004 and occupies a share of 70% in a domestic mobile phone 3G market. We have succeeded to manufacture various rendering engines to the degree of progress of high accuracy of liquid crystal display device.
We establish a Tokyo office in 2005 and plan influence to a wide product market such as not only a mobile market but also car navigation system, a digital TV, information household appliance.