Index: /icu4j/trunk/main/classes/core/src/com/ibm/icu/text/SimpleDateFormat.java
===================================================================
--- /icu4j/trunk/main/classes/core/src/com/ibm/icu/text/SimpleDateFormat.java	(revision 34867)
+++ /icu4j/trunk/main/classes/core/src/com/ibm/icu/text/SimpleDateFormat.java	(revision 34868)
@@ -2820,5 +2820,5 @@
                 if ( override != null && (override.compareTo("hebr") == 0 || override.indexOf("y=hebr") >= 0) && value < 1000 ) {
                     value += HEBREW_CAL_CUR_MILLENIUM_START_YEAR;
-                } else if (count == 2 && (pos.getIndex() - start) == 2 && !isChineseCalendar && !cal.getType().equals("japanese")
+                } else if (count == 2 && (pos.getIndex() - start) == 2 && cal.haveDefaultCentury()
                     && UCharacter.isDigit(text.charAt(start))
                     && UCharacter.isDigit(text.charAt(start+1)))
Index: /icu4j/trunk/main/classes/core/src/com/ibm/icu/util/JapaneseCalendar.java
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--- /icu4j/trunk/main/classes/core/src/com/ibm/icu/util/JapaneseCalendar.java	(revision 34867)
+++ /icu4j/trunk/main/classes/core/src/com/ibm/icu/util/JapaneseCalendar.java	(revision 34868)
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
  *******************************************************************************
- * Copyright (C) 1996-2010,2012, International Business Machines Corporation and    *
+ * Copyright (C) 1996-2014, International Business Machines Corporation and    *
  * others. All Rights Reserved.                                                *
  *******************************************************************************
@@ -639,4 +639,13 @@
     /**
      * {@inheritDoc}
+     * @internal
+     * @deprecated This API is ICU internal only.
+     */
+    public boolean haveDefaultCentury() {
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * {@inheritDoc}
      * @stable ICU 4.0
      */
@@ -662,3 +671,4 @@
         return super.getActualMaximum(field);
     }
+
 }
Index: /icu4j/trunk/main/classes/core/src/com/ibm/icu/util/Calendar.java
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--- /icu4j/trunk/main/classes/core/src/com/ibm/icu/util/Calendar.java	(revision 34867)
+++ /icu4j/trunk/main/classes/core/src/com/ibm/icu/util/Calendar.java	(revision 34868)
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 /*
-*   Copyright (C) 1996-2013, International Business Machines
+*   Copyright (C) 1996-2014, International Business Machines
 *   Corporation and others.  All Rights Reserved.
 */
@@ -6081,4 +6081,19 @@
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Returns if two digit representation of year in this calendar type
+     * customarily implies a default century (i.e. 03 -> 2003).
+     * The default implementation returns <code>true</code>. A subclass may
+     * return <code>false</code> if such practice is not applicable (for example,
+     * Chinese calendar and Japanese calendar).
+     * 
+     * @return <code>true<code> if this calendar has a default century.
+     * @internal
+     * @deprecated This API is ICU internal only.
+     */
+    public boolean haveDefaultCentury() {
+        return true;
+    }
+
     // -------- BEGIN ULocale boilerplate --------
 
Index: /icu4j/trunk/main/classes/core/src/com/ibm/icu/util/ChineseCalendar.java
===================================================================
--- /icu4j/trunk/main/classes/core/src/com/ibm/icu/util/ChineseCalendar.java	(revision 34867)
+++ /icu4j/trunk/main/classes/core/src/com/ibm/icu/util/ChineseCalendar.java	(revision 34868)
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 /*********************************************************************
- * Copyright (C) 2000-2012, International Business Machines
+ * Copyright (C) 2000-2014, International Business Machines
  * Corporation and others. All Rights Reserved.
  *********************************************************************
@@ -1019,4 +1019,13 @@
 
     /**
+     * {@inheritDoc}
+     * @internal
+     * @deprecated This API is ICU internal only.
+     */
+    public boolean haveDefaultCentury() {
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    /**
      * Override readObject.
      */