1954
Inaugural meeting on May 9 at the Osaka City Educational Center
First president: Kyoji Shinomiya Members: 196
1st Annual Conference
1960
Launching the Journal of Social Welfare
1973
Official certification as an academic institution in the Science Council of Japan
1978
Board Member Masaru Osawa became a member of the Science Council of Japan
Launching the newsletter Society News
1980
Journal of Social Welfare published twice a year since Volume 21
1993
Number of members exceeds 2,000
1997
Public Symposium held four times in 1997-1998
Publishing of the Report on International Cooperation in Social Welfare
Launching of the English language Japanese Journal of Social Services
1999
Publishing of the report Seminar: Summary on post-war social welfare and outlooks for the 21st century – Volume I: Summary and Outlooks
Launching of the society website
2002
Signing of a Memorandum on the Promotion of Academic Exchange on Social Welfare between Korea and Japan
2003
Journal of Social Welfare published three times a year since Volume 44
Establishing the Japanese Society for the Study of Social Welfare Award
Publishing of 50 Years of Social Welfare Studies
2004
Adapting the Japanese Society for the Study of Social Welfare Ethical Guidelines for Research
2006
Policy and Theory Forum held seven times in 2006-2008.
Journal of Social Welfare published quarterly since Volume 47
Number of members exceeds 5,000
2007
Participation in the Japan Consortium for Sociological Societies
Participation in the Japanese Association of Social Welfare Academic Societies
2008
Japanese Society for the Study of Social Welfare Forum
Participation in the Council of Academies for Social Policies
2009
CiNii contracted for electric archival of the Journal of Social Welfare
2010
Acquisition of legal personality (General Incorporated Association)
National Convention to be held twice a year (Autumn and Spring)
Launching of the e-newsletter
2011
Korea-Japan Academic Exchange Symposium held at the convention of the Korea Academy of Social Welfare
– In the following, the Korea-Japan Academic Exchange Symposium held annually until FY2014
International Academic Symposium held at the Autumn Convention
– In the following, the International Academic Symposium held at the annual Autumn Convention by the Japanese Society for the Study of Social Welfare
2014
Revising the memorandum with the Korea Academy of Social Welfare; international symposia are hosted biannually by either country
2015
The President and other members attend the annual convention of the Social Welfare Research Committee of the Chinese Sociological Association
Japan-China-Korea International Symposium held at the convention of the Korea Academy of Social Welfare
2016
Renewing the memorandum at the Japan-Korea Presidents’ Meeting
Discussion of the Japan-Korea-China Agreement on the Promotion of Academic Exchange at a tripartite meeting between the three countries
Creation of the logo of the Japanese Society for the Study of Social Welfare
2017
Japan-Korea-China Tripartite Presidents’ Meeting held
Replacing the Japan-Korea memorandum, signing and exchanging the Memorandum on the Promotion of Academic Exchange between Korea, China and Japan
– In the following, representatives are invited and individual research presentations and cooperative research projects are promoted at the spring convention of the Korea Academy of Social Welfare, the annual convention of the Social Welfare Research Committee of the Chinese Sociological Association, and the autumn convention of the Japanese Society for the Study of Social Welfare
2018
East Asia Social Welfare Forum held the annual convention of the Social Welfare Research Committee of the Chinese Sociological Association
Launching the online submission and peer review system
Japan hosts the Korea-China-Japan academic exchange for the first time held at the autumn convention of the Japanese Society for the Study of Social Welfare