| Date | Main Events | |
|---|---|---|
| 1948 | Apr | Japanese Archaeological Association celebrates its inauguration at the Tokyo National Museum (First President: Ryosaku Fujita, with 81 regular members and 5 affiliate members). |
| Establishes the Ad Hoc Committee on Toro Site Archaeological Excavation (The Committee dissolved in 1954). | ||
| 1950 | Mar | Number of regular members exceeds 123. |
| 1951 | Oct | Publishes the first issue of Archaeologia Japonica. |
| 1953 | Oct | Publishes the first issue of Bulletin of the Japanese Archaeological Association. |
| 1956 | Dec | Publishes Nihon Nokobunka no Seisei [Formation of Agricultural Culture in Japan]. |
| 1962 | Dec | Publishes Nihon Kokogaku Jiten [Dictionary on Japanese Archaeology]. |
| 1965 | May | Establishes the Ad Hoc Committee on Policy for the Archaeological Heritage Management (The Committee dissolved in1971). |
| 1967 | Mar | Publishes Nihon no Dokeetsu Iseki [Cave Sites in Japan]. Number of regular members exceeds 500. |
| 1971 | May | Establishes the Committee on Policy for the Archaeological Heritage Management as a standing committee (renames the ad hoc committee of the same title). |
| Dec | Publishes the first edition of Maizo Bunkazai Hakusho [White Paper on Archaeological Heritages]. | |
| 1972 | May | Renames the Bulletin of the Japanese Archaeological Association in Japanese (The English title unchanged). |
| 1981 | May | Publishes the second edition of Maizo Bunkazai Hakusho [White Paper on Archaeological Heritages]. |
| 1994 | Nov | Publishes the first issue of the Association’s journal, Nihon Kokogaku. |
| 1995 | May | Establishes the Ad Hoc Committee on Archaeological Heritage Rescue in Response to the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake (The Committee dissolved in 2000). Number of regular members exceeds 3,000. |
| 1998 | Apr | Celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Association’s founding. Holds a commemorative lecture meeting, and publishes Nihon Kokogaku no 50-nen [Fifty years of Archaeology in Japan]. |
| 2003 | May | Publishes the final report of Zen-Chuki Kyu-sekki Netsuzo Mondai no Kensho [Investigation of the Issues Related to the Fabrication of Early and Middle Paleolithic Sites in Japan]. |
| 2004 | Mar | Reorganizes the Association as a limited liability intermediate corporation (The English name unchanged), and establishes the articles of incorporation. |
| Launches an official website. | ||
| 2005 | May | Publishes the third edition of Maizo Bunkazai Hakusho [White Paper on Archaeological Heritages]. |
| 2006 | May | Formulates the Code of Ethics of the Association. |
| 2007 | Sep | Number of regular members exceeds 4,000. |
| 2009 | May | Reorganizes the Association as a general incorporated association (The English name unchanged). |
| 2011 | May | Establishes the Ad Hoc Committee on Countermeasures against the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. |
| 2013 | Dec | Publishes the first issue of the Association’s electronic English journal Japanese Journal of Archaeology. |
