The JPS holds its national meetings every spring and autumn. In the Annual Meetings, scientists in all 19 sub-fields of physics gather in one hall in attendance of a series of lectures. In the Autumn/Spring Meetings (when the Annual Meeting takes place in the autumn, there is a Spring Meeting. When the Annual Meeting takes place in the spring, there is an Autumn Meeting), the venue is divided in two. In both meetings, as many as 5,000 researchers, educators and students participate in the over 3,000 lectures and debate sessions and symposia. During the meetings, an exhibition of research equipment and facilities and books related to physics is carried out, providing an important arena for the communication between the physics community and the equipment and publishing industries.

 In 2012, the 66th Annual Meeting took place as below.