| 1950 | Established in Tokyo as the first Weather Association, with permission granted
from
the then Minister of Transport. |
| 1955 | Obtained a license for "forecasting services" as defined in the Meteorological
Service Act (permit No. 5). |
| 1955 | Began weather forecasting services via telephone. |
| 1963 | Started weather forecasting and commentary services for NHK, Japan's only
public broadcaster. |
| 1964 | Started meteorological, hydrological, and environmental investigation and
analysis services. |
| 1966 | Integrated all local Weather Associations, and changed the name to the Japan
Weather Association (JWA).
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| 1973 | Launched proprietary weather forecasting services for highway operators. |
| 1977 | Started practical operation of MICOS, Japan’s first online weather information
service. |
| 1983 | Received an award from the then Minister of Transport as a company
contributing to the digital information society, in recognition of the contribution
of MICOS to improving people’s lives through the provision of weather
information. |
| 1995 | Launched local weather forecasting services based on the Certified Weather
Forecasters System. |
| 1995 | Launched disaster prevention and meteorological information services via the
Internet. |
| 1998 | Started a study for tsunami inundation prediction and tsunami database
development. |
| 2000 | Started mobile content provision services. |
| 2007 | Launched the practical operation of solar radiation prediction for solar power
operators (Patent Nos. 5047245 and 5059073).
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| 2008 | Developed the SYNFOS-3D comprehensive numerical weather forecasting
system (patent No. 5203104), which performs data assimilation of real-time
information including GPS-PWV(precipitable water vapor) to the computation
process, and launched actual services. |
| 2009 | Twitter followers of "tenki.jp" grew to over 100,000. |
| 2009 | Transition to a general incorporated foundation with the approval of the Cabinet
Office. |
| 2011 | Participated in a study to create a tsunami hazard map corresponding to
multiple tsunami heights, which was conducted by the Cabinet Office after the
Great East Japan Earthquake, and created an inundation prediction diagram
corresponding to multiple tsunami heights. |
| 2011 | Started service provision for JR East’s Train Channel digital signage system on
trains, including the Yamanote Line. |
| 2012 | Became the first private weather company in Japan to introduce X-band MP
radar.
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| 2013 | Released the AR app "Go-u [Heavy Rain] Detector" (patent pending, No. 2013-
090981), which displays real-time rainfall information by utilizing X-band MP
radar observation data. |
| 2013 | Established the Environmental Impact Assessment Section, which specializes
in environmental consulting for wind power generation businesses.
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| 2013 | Endowed the JWA Research Division for Meteorological and Hydrological Risk
Information in the Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University |
| 2014 | Established the Overseas Business Section, which promotes global business
opportunities in JWA. |
| 2014 | Launched a collaborated project with METI Japan “Reducing Food Loss and
Saving Distribution- related Energy through Enhancing the Precision of
Demand Forecasts”
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| 2017 | Launched a collaborated project with the State Hydrometeorological Service of
the Republic of Moldova. |
| 2019 | Began providing "POLARIS", a meteorological and oceanographic service for
maritime industry. |
