Jan. 1938 | Launch of the National Institute for Public Health |
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Mar. 1974 | Launch of the National Institute for Environmental Studies |
July 1990 | Change of the designation of NIES in Japanese |
Apr. 1992 | The National Institute for Public Health launches new Department of Waste Management Engineering |
Jan. 2001 | Ministry of the Environment is established as part of administrative reforms of the Japanese government (Centralization of waste administration). NIES launches new Waste Management Research Division (Integration and transfer of the Waste Management Engineering Department from the National Institute for Public Health) |
Apr. 2001 | NIES becomes an Independent Administrative Institution. NIES launches the Research Center for Material Cycles and Waste Management |
Apr. 2006 | Change of the designation of the Center in Japanese (but remained unchanged in English) |