 Year |
Events concerning the Ship Research Institute |
World events |
| July 1916 |
Established as the Ship Equipment Inspection
Station under the Shipping Administration
Bureau of the Ministry of Posts Telecommunication
and Transport |
|
| September 1920 |
Osaka Branch Office opened |
|
| September 1923 |
|
Great Kanto Earthquake |
| November 1927 |
Name changed to the Ship Testing Station
under the Shipping Administration Bureau
of the Ministry of Posts Telecommunication
and Transport |
|
| December 1941 |
|
Start of the Pacific War (the Attack on Pearl
Harbor) |
| May 1945 |
Name changed to the Ship Testing Station,
Ministry of Transport |
|
| August 1945 |
|
End of the Pacific War |
| April 1950 |
Establishment of the Transportation Research
Institute, Ministry of Transport
(integrated with part of the Railway Research
Institute of Japan National Railways in the
Engineering Research Division, Ports and
Harbors Bureau, Ministry of Transport) |
|
| May 1958 |
Tokai Branch Office opened in Tokaimura,
Ibaraki Prefecture |
|
| April 1962 |
Establishment and separation of the Port
& Harbor Research Institute, Ministry
of Transport |
|
| April 1963 |
Establishment of the Ship Research Institute,
Ministry of Transport |
|
| July 1967 |
Establishment and separation of the Electronic
Navigation Research Institute, Ministry of
Transport |
|
| April 1968 |
Closure of the Hull Test Division (establishment
of the Japan Shipbuilding Technology Center) |
|
| July 1970 |
Establishment and separation of the Traffic
Safety & Nuisance Research Institute,
Ministry of Transport |
|
| April 1986 |
Reformation of the research department |
|
| April 2001 |
National Maritime Research Institute was
established |
|
| April 2002 |
Reorganization |
|
