Historical background
Updated： 2025/04/22
| Wood Research Institute (WRI) | Ionosphere Research Laboratory (IRL) |
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| 1944 The Wood Research Institute (WRI) was established. |
1961 The lonosphere Research Laboratory (IRL) was established. |
| 1949 WRI was recognized as an institute affiliated to Kyoto University. |
1981 The Radio Atmospheric Science Center (RASC) was established from reorganizing and renaming IRL. |
| 1979 Wood Preserving Facilities was constructed. |
1984 A cooperative study program was initiated. The MU radar was established. |
| 1980 The Xylarium was constructed. |
1993 The KDK computer system was introduced. |
| 1991 The institute was reorganized and expanded into four divisions. |
1996 The Microwave Energy Transmission Laboratory (METLAB) was established. |
| 1994 Wood Composite Hall was completed. |
2000 RASC was reorganized and renamed as the Radio Science Center for Space and Atmosphere (RASC). |
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| 2004 The Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere (RISH) was established. |
| 2005 RISH was approved as a cooperative research institute. |
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2005 |
| 2006 Usage of the Forest-Biomass Evaluation and Analysis System commenced. |
| 2007 The Virtual Field for Humanosphere was established. |
| 2008 The Development and Assessment of Sustainable Humanosphere (DASH) system was introduced. |
| 2010 RISH became the approved joint usage Research Center for Humanosphere Science. |
| 2011 Frontier Research in Sustainable Humanosphere started. |
| 2011 The Advanced Microwave Energy Transmission Laboratory (A-METLAB) and the Analysis and Development System for Advanced Materials (ADAM) were founded. |
| 2014 The 10th anniversary ceremony was held. “Introduction for Humanosphere Science” was published. |
| 2015 The MU radar was selected as the IEEE milestone. |
| 2016 A new mission statement and Humanosphere Asia Research Node program were introduced. |
| 2016 RISH was approved as a WDS Regular Member. |
| 2020 The 15th Anniversary Symposium (Humanosphere Science Forum Special Symposium) was held. |
| 2020 Humanosphere Science Research Fund “For a Sustainable Future” was founded. |
| 2021 Joint usage of the Cellulosic Advanced Nanomaterials Development Organization (CAN-DO) commenced. |
| 2021 The 20th anniversary ceremony and international symposium of the Equatorial Atmosphere Radar (EAR) was held. |
| 2022 RISH was reorganized and the Center for Future Pioneering Research on the Humanosphere was established. |
