History
Until 1984
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1979 (Showa 54)
- July
- Ko-densha was founded by spinning off the 2nd Technical Division of Iwaki Electrical Construction Co., Ltd.
Convinced of the future potential of personal computers in business, Ko-densha was founded. The company engaged in PC software development and hardware sales.
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1980 (Showa 55)
- July
- Established Ko-densha PC Academy and began computer education.
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1981 (Showa 56)
- August
- Developed and released "WORD3000," a Japanese word processor for the PC-8000, the first of its kind in Japan.
- October
- Developed and released "Hangul 4300," a Korean word processor for the PC-8000.
- November
- Developed and released "WORD9000," an English word processor for the PC-8000.
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1982 (Showa 57)
- November
- Incorporated the organization and established Ko-densha Co., Ltd.
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1983 (Showa 58)
- April
- Established Tokyo branch.
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1984 (Showa 59)
- July
- Formed a software technology partnership with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- August
- Received a loan for the development of R&D-oriented companies from Osaka Prefecture.
1985–1994
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1988 (Showa 63)
- August
- Developed and released the 15-language word processor "KOA-TechnoMate".
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1991 (Heisei 3)
- November
- Developed and released the Japanese-Korean translation software "j-Seoul".
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1992 (Heisei 4)
- March
- Developed a Mongolian word processor under the Japanese government's ODA program.
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1993 (Heisei 5)
- February
- Provided the "Korea News Flash" service on NEC's PC-VAN.
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1994 (Heisei 6)
- March
- Developed and released the English-Japanese translation software "j-London/EJ".
- May
- Developed and released the Korean-Japanese translation software "j-Seoul (Korean-Japanese version)".
Released the English-Japanese translation software "j-London/JE". - September
- Developed and released the Chinese input software "Chinese Writer".
Developed and released the Korean input software "Korean Writer".
1995–2004
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1995 (Heisei 7)
- August
- Developed and released "WorldNet/EJ," an internet communication software with translation features for Windows 95.
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1996 (Heisei 8)
- August
- Released the Japanese-Korean translation software "j-Seoul/JK."
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1998 (Heisei 10)
- April
- Released the Chinese-Japanese translation software "j-Beijing."
- October
- Received the Excellent Information Processing System Award from the Information Month Promotion Council of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (currently the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry).
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1999 (Heisei 11)
- Received the Industrial Technology Award from the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS).
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2000 (Heisei 12)
- August
- Launched the ASP site "Translation Station J-SERVER" (solution).
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2001 (Heisei 13)
- March
- Launched "J-SERVER Pocket," an automatic mobile phone translation service, as the first paid service in Japan offered as official content by a telecommunications carrier.
- April
- Launched "My Site Translation," an automatic website translation service, providing the service to a tourism site for the first time in Japan.
- July
- Developed and released "World Voice," an 11-language speech synthesis software.
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2003 (Heisei 15)
- February
- Developed and released "Translation Walker j-Beijing," a Japanese-Chinese/Chinese-Japanese translation software for Windows mobile phones.
- June
- Capital increase to 50 million yen.
- August
- Launched Japanese-Chinese/Chinese-Japanese web translation service on the search site Excite.
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2004 (Heisei 16)
- March
- Provided "J-SERVER Professional" for NEC Corporation's "BIGLOBE Translation Tool".
2005–2014
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2005
- December
- "J-SERVER Pocket" received the Jury's Special Award (Seiko Ito Award) at the i-mode Site Awards 2005.
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2006
- September
- Provided the automatic translation service "J-SERVER Professional Translation Gateway" to the Japan Foundation.
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2007
- March
- Provided service for NTT Communications Corporation's "OCN Translation".
- August
- Provided Japanese-Chinese/Chinese-Japanese translation service on the major Chinese search site "Yahoo! China".
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2008
- June
- The mobile phone translation service "J-SERVER Pocket" received the 3rd Nagao Award from the Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT).
Click here for details - September
- HTC adopted "Jisho Walker English" for Windows Mobile as built-in software for the Touch Diamond and Touch Pro series.
- October
- Launched the "Chinese Proficiency Test Past Questions WEB" service, which faithfully reproduces past questions from the Chinese Proficiency Test.
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2009
- May
- Announced a partnership with OMRON SOFTWARE Co., Ltd. regarding Chinese and Korean document creation software.
- June
- Provided a Korean translation engine to "excite Translation" and launched the service.
- September
- Relocated the Tokyo branch to Akasaka.
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2013
- April
- Opened the Osaka office at Grand Front Osaka Knowledge Capital 8F K820.
- November
- Developed and released the Android app "Translation Keyboard," a translation app linked with Wnn Keyboard Lab.
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2014
- June
- Developed and released the multilingual translation broadcasting system "J-SERVER Guidance."
2015–
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2015
- February
- Developed and released the corporate intranet translation support system "J-SERVER Office Biz." (solution).
- June
- Developed and released the corporate cloud translation service "J-SERVER Office Biz. Cloud" (solution).
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2016
- May
- Developed and released the real-time voice interpretation app "My Interpreter Assist."
- December
- Developed and released the multilingual translation broadcasting system "J-SERVER Guidance (for premises)."
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2018
- July
- Launched "MySite Translator Premium," an automatic website translation service that also supports e-commerce and reservation sites.
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2020 (Reiwa 2)
- February
- Relocated headquarters to Hayabusa-cho, Chiyoda-ku, and changed the Osaka headquarters to the Osaka branch (registration completed in March).
- April
- Relocated the Tokyo branch to the headquarters.
- October
- Developed and launched "kode-AI Translation," an AI translation service for corporations.
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2021 (Reiwa 3)
- April
- Closed the Osaka office at Grand Front Osaka Knowledge Capital.
- April
- Started service integration between the content management system "infoCMS(r)10" and the automatic translation service "MySite Translator."
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2023 (Reiwa 5)
- September
- Launched "OTO Creator," a multilingual AI speech synthesis cloud service.
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2024 (Reiwa 6)
- August
- Launched "OTO Reader," a multilingual AI text-to-speech service.
