Two kinds of units with the shaku remain in Japan of today, one is kane-jaku (generally called 'shaku' simply) and the other is kujira-jaku whose unit length of the shaku is 1.25 times longer than that of the kane-jaku.
今日の日本では曲尺（かねじゃく。単に「尺」と言えばこちらを指す）とその1.25倍の長さの鯨尺（くじらしゃく）が残っている。