From the WIA, original post here.

Date : 10 / 02 / 2016 
Author : Jim Linton – VK3PC

The Japan Amateur Radio League JARL is marking its 90th birthday with a range of events including the ‘JARL 90th Anniversary Award’.  The JARL, a proud active member society in the IARU, began in 1926 and encourages the world to be involved through this special operating award that ends December 31, 2016.  Among the qualifying special event stations that may count as nine points each, are more than 25 callsigns all with the prefix 8J – some only on air to celebrate JARL 90.  The others involved include the Japan-US Reciprocal agreement (8J1JAUS), the Keymen’s Club of Japan (several suffixed KCJ), UNESCO World Heritage (8J6IR), Japan Award Hunters Group (8J1JAG), and the Western Japan Ham Fair (8J6HAM).

Read about the JARL Awards in English here.