Chronological Table
1873 | Kihachiro Okura established Okura Gumi Shokai Ginza Brick Street restoration project |
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1882 | Arc lamps lit in front of Okura Gumi Shokai in Ginza |
1883 | Rokumeikan (facility for entertaining state visitors or foreign diplomats) |
1887 | Establishment of Nippon Doboku Co., Ltd. (the first corporation in the construction industry) Establishment of Osaka Office (later, Osaka Branch, currently Kansai Branch) |
1890 | Lake Biwa Lock and Tunnel (Kyoto-fu and Shiga Prefecture) (water tunnel to deliver water from Lake Biwa to Kyoto) |
1893 | Kihachiro Okura established Okura Doboku Gumi |
1911 | Kabushiki Gaisha Okura Gumi Civil Engineering Department launched |
1915 | Okura Gumi main building |
1917 | Establishment of Kabushiki Gaisha Okura Doboku Gumi (first kabushiki gaisha (stock-type company) in the construction industry) |
1920 | Name change to Nihon Doboku Kabushiki Gaisha |
1923 | New Imperial Hotel (designed by F.L. Wright) |
1924 | Name change to Okura Doboku Kabushiki Gaisha Yokohama Office opened (currently Yokohama Branch) |
1927 | Underground Railway Tokyo(Ginza line's original enterprise) [Ueno - Asakusa segment] (first metro in the Orient) |
1928 | Death of Kihachiro Okura (age 90) |
1929 | Sapporo Office opened (currently Sapporo Branch) |
1931 | Nagoya Office opened (currently Chubu Branch) Okura Schanze (Hokkaido) |
1933 | Kyushu Office opened (later Fukuoka Branch, currently Kyushu Branch) |
1945 | Susumu Onishi appointed President |
1946 | Name change to Taisei Corporation Sendai (currently Tohoku Branch), Hiroshima (currently Chugoku Branch), Niigata (currently Hoku Shinetsu Branch), Takamatsu (currently Shikoku Branch) offices name change to Branch |
1947 | Election of President Takeo Fujita and Directors by employee voting |
1949 | Employee stock system established, thereby becoming a non-family corporation |
1956 | Listing of shares on Tokyo Stock Exchange |
1957 | Kazue Kato appointed President Listing of shares on Tokyo Stock Exchange (first in the construction industry) |
1958 | Completion of Ginza Taisei Building, headquarters moved The former National Stadium (Tokyo) |
1960 | Establishment of Research Institute in Toyosu Tokuji Mizushima appointed President |
1963 | Tokyo Branch opened Kahei Honma appointed President |
1964 | Mt. Fuji Summit Radar Site (Shizuoka Prefecture, Yamanashi Prefecture) (For meteorological observation) |
1969 | Koji Minami appointed President |
1973 | Centenary (commemorative event held) |
1975 | Hideo Sugasawa appointed President |
1979 | Shinjuku Center Building completed, headquarters moved Hajime Sako appointed President Research Institute moved to Totsuka, Yokohama |
1985 | Yasuo Satomi appointed President |
1987 | Seikan Tunnel [Yoshioka section] (world's longest undersea tunnel) |
1991 | Tokyo Metropolitan Government No.1 Bldg |
1993 | Hyozo Yamamoto appointed President Chiba Branch, Kanto Branch, Kobe Branch opened |
1997 | Osamu Hirashima appointed President |
2000 | Kyoto Branch opened |
2001 | Kanji Hayama appointed President |
2007 | Takashi Yamauchi appointed President |
2013 | 140th anniversary of founding (commemorative exhibition "Passing the Baton to the Future" held) |
2015 | Yoshiyuki Murata appointed President |
2019 | Japan National Stadium (Tokyo) |
2020 | Yoshiro Aikawa appointed President |