History

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