Company History
~1984
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1979 - 1979
- Jul.
- Spun off Iwaki Electric Construction Co., Ltd.'s Engineering Division 2 and founded Kodensha.
Convinced of the potential of the personal computer business, KO DENSHA was founded. Ltd. to develop personal computer software and to sell personal computer hardware.
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1980 (Showa 55)
- Jul.
- KO DENSHA PC Academy is established and PC education begins.
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1981 (Showa 56)
- Aug.
- Developed and released WORD3000, Japan's first Japanese word processor for PC-8000.
- Oct.
- Developed and released the Korean word processor "Hangul 4300" for the PC-8000.
- Nov.
- English word processor for PC-8000 "WORD9000" developed and released.
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1982 (Showa 57)
- Nov.
- Incorporates the organization and establishes Kodensha Co.
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1983 (Showa 58)
- Apr.
- Tokyo branch established.
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1984 (1984)
- Jul.
- Formed a software technology alliance with Samsung Electronics Co.
- Aug.
- Received a loan from Osaka Prefecture for fostering R&D-oriented companies.
1985 - 1994
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1988 (Showa 63)
- Aug.
- Developed and released KOA-TechnoMate, a 15-language word processor.
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1991 (Heisei 3)
- Nov.
- Developed and released "j-Seoul" Japanese-Korean translation software.
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1992 (Heisei 4)
- Mar.
- Developed Mongolian word processor with Japanese government ODA.
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1993 (Heisei 5)
- Feb.
- Provided "Korea News Bulletin" service on NEC's PC-VAN.
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1994 (Heisei 6)
- Mar.
- English-Japanese translation software "j. London/EJ" developed and released.
- May, 2021
- Developed and released Korean-Japanese translation software "j-Seoul (Korean-Japanese version).
Released j-London/JE, Japanese-English translation software. - Sep.
- Chinese input software "Chinese Writer" developed and released.
Korean input software "Korean Writer" developed and released.
1995 - 2004
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1995 (Heisei 7)
- Aug.
- Developed and released "WorldNet/EJ", Internet communication software with translation function for Windows95.
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1996 (Heisei 8)
- Aug.
- Japanese-Korean translation software "j-Seoul/JK" released.
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1998 (Heisei 10)
- Apr.
- Released Chinese-Japanese translation software "j-Beijing.
- Oct.
- Received the Excellent Information Processing System Award from the Information Technology Month Promotion Council of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (now the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry).
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1999 (Heisei 11)
- Received the Industrial Technology Award from the Korea Broadcasting System (KBS).
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2000 (Heisei 12)
- Aug.
- Released the ASP site "Translation Station J-SERVER" (Solution).
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2001 (Heisei 13)
- Mar.
- Launched the "J-SERVER Pocket" cell phone automatic translation service, the first service in Japan to offer paid services as official content for telecommunications carriers.
- Apr.
- Website automatic translation service "My Site Translation", the first service in Japan to be offered to sightseeing sites.
- Jul.
- Developed and released "World Voice," speech synthesis software in 11 languages.
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2003 (Heisei 15)
- Feb.
- Developed and released "Translation Walker j/Beijing," Japanese-Chinese/Chinese-Japanese translation software for Windows cell phones.
- Jun.
- Increased capital to 50 million yen.
- Aug.
- Launched Japanese-Chinese/Chinese-Japanese web translation service on Excite, a search site.
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2004 (Heisei 16)
- Mar.
- J-SERVER Professional" is provided to NEC Corporation's "BIGLOBE Translation Tool".
2005 - 2014
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2005 (Heisei 17)
- Dec.
- J-SERVER Pocket" receives the judges' special award (Ito Seiko Award) in the i-mode Site Awards 2005.
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2006 (Heisei 18)
- Sep.
- Provides "J-SERVER Professional Translation Gateway," an automated translation service, to the Japan Foundation.
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2007 (Heisei 19)
- Mar.
- Provided services for NTT Communications Corporation's "OCN Translation.
- Aug.
- Provided Japanese-Chinese and Chinese-Japanese translation services for Yahoo! China, a major Chinese search site.
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2008 (Heisei 20)
- Jun.
- J-SERVER Pocket," a translation service for cell phones, received the 3rd Nagao Award from the Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT).
For more information, click here. - Sep.
- HTC adopts "Dictionary Walker English" for Windows Mobile as built-in software for Touch Diamond and Touch Pro series.
- Oct.
- Launched "Chinese Proficiency Test Past Question Web" service, which faithfully reproduces past questions of the Chinese Language Proficiency Test.
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2009 (Heisei 21)
- May, 2021
- Announced collaboration with OMRON SOFTWARE CORPORATION on Chinese and Korean document creation software.
- Jun.
- Provided Korean translation engine to "excite translation" and started service.
- Sep.
- Tokyo branch moves to Akasaka.
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2013 (Heisei 25)
- Apr.
- Opened Osaka office at K820, 8F, Knowledge Capital, Grand Front Osaka.
- Nov.
- Developed and released the Android application of "Translation Keyboard", a translation application linked with Wnn Keyboard Lab.
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2014 (Heisei 26)
- Jun.
- Developed and released "J-SERVER Guidance," a multilingual translation broadcast system.
2015 -.
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2015 (Heisei 27)
- Feb.
- Developed and released "J-SERVER Office Biz." (solution), an intranet translation support system for corporations.
- Jun.
- Developed and released "J-SERVER Office Biz. Cloud" (solution), a cloud translation service for enterprises.
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2016 (Heisei 28)
- May, 2021
- Developed and released "My Interpreter Assist," a real-time voice interpretation application.
- Dec.
- Developed and released "J-SERVER Guidance (for premises)," a multilingual translation broadcast system.
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2018 (Heisei 30)
- Jul.
- Launched "My Site Translation Premium," an automatic website translation service for e-commerce and reservation sites.
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2020 (Year 2020)
- Feb.
- Head office is relocated to Hayacho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, and the Osaka head office is renamed the Osaka branch office (registration completed in March).
- Apr.
- Moved Tokyo Branch to Head Office.
- Oct.
- Developed and launched "kode-AI Translation," an AI translation service for corporate clients.
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2021 (3rd year of the 20th year of the 20th century)
- Apr.
- Closes Osaka Office at Grand Front Osaka Knowledge Capital.
