History of NKKK
| 1913 | Founded Nippon Kaiji Kumiai. Started Survey and inspection. | |
| 1914 | Approved as an incorporated association based on the Civil Act Article 34 | |
| 1916 | Started measuring services | |
| 1918 | Merged Tagami Maritime office, and Kyodo cargoes measuring office.Opened branch offices and liaison offices at major sea ports | |
| 1923 | Established calibration regulations and association marks (the double anchor mark) | |
| 1926 | Changed the association name to Nippon Kaiji Kentei Kyokai | |
| 1934 | Approved as a 'Survey institute for loading gunpowder on ocean vessel' according to the Regulation for the Carriage and Storage of Dangerous Goods by Ships. | |
| 1938 | Received an order for measuring service from the European freight conference. | |
| 1951 | Appointed as the single measuring institute for major freight conferences in Pacific, Atlantic, and Europe routes. | |
| 1955 | Opened our Physical-chemical Laboratory | |
| 1957 | Approved by the Minister of Transportation as a public corporation to inspect hazardous cargo according to the Regulation for the Carriage and Storage of Dangerous Goods by Ships. | |
| 1963 | Obtained a license for our operation based on the new Port Transport Business Act. | |
| 1964 | Assigned by the Minister of Transportation as an institute permitted to measure moisture in fine power mines, based on the grain and other special cargo ocean vessel transportation regulations. | |
| 1966 | Opened our Bangkok office (changed to local corporation in 1970) | |
| 1969 | Approved by the Minister of Transportation as a public corporation permitted to inspect the loading hazardous material in ocean containers according to the Regulation for the Carriage and Storage of Dangerous Goods by Ships. | |
| 1972 | Opened our Singapore office | |
| 1975 | Opened a local corporation, Nippon Kaiji Kentei (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. in Kuala Lumpur | |
| 1977 | Opened a local corporation, Philippine-Japan Marin surveyor's & Sworn Measures Corporation in Philippine, as a joint venture | |
| 1980 | Signed the Japan China Trade Commodities Inspection Mutual agreement with China Export/Import Commodity Inspection Co., Ltd. | |
| 1987 | Opened a local corporation NKKK(Taiwan) Ltd. , in Taipei as a joint venture. Assigned by the Director General of Maritime Safety Agency as an approved institute to specify and check marine pollutions, based on the Marine Pollution and Marine Disaster Prevention Law. | |
| 1989 | Opened a European office at Amsterdam | |
| 1992 | Opened an office in Barcelona | |
| 1994 | Became an inspection institute assigned by the Minister of Health and Welfare, based on the Food Hygiene Law. Opened a local corporation, P. T. Nippon Kaiji Kentei Kyokai Indonesia, in Indonesia as a joint venture. | |
| 1995 | Opened a loan corporation, Tianjin Hua He Marine Surveyors & Sworn Measurers Co, Ltd., in Tianjin under as a joint venture. Opened our Ho Chi Minh liaison office. | |
| 1996 | Opened our Shanghai liaison office (changed to a local corporation on 1998). Became an analysis institute assigned by the Minister of International Trade and Industry under the Act Concerning the Maintenance of Quality of Gasoline. | |
| 1997 | Obtained quality assurance certification （ISO9002:1994）,（registered by Nippon Kaiji Kyokai, incorporated）Services registered: Inspections related to ocean vessels, inspections related to liquid cargo and liquefied gases, tank calibration and metering instrument precision inspection, inspection of mineral products, analysis of cargo. | |
| 1999 | Approved as an institute to measure the density of bulk and solid cargoes by the Minister of Transportation, based on the ocean vessel facility regulation and the ordinance that revised a part of this regulation. | |
| 2002 | Certified and registered QMS （ISO9001:2000）. Additionally registered services: Inspection of loading in ocean containers, inspections based on the ocean vessel safety law, and check operations based on Marine Pollution and Marine Disaster Prevention Law. |
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| 2006 | Obtained approval to operate survey and measuring services according to the revision of the Port Transportation Business Act. | |
| 2008 | On December 1, changed to an exempt corporation specified by the Civil Act, according to the enforcement of the law of the Act on General Incorporated Associations and General Incorporated Foundations. | |
| 2011 | On April 1, changed to a general incorporated | |
| 2013 | On February 11, 100 th anniversary | |
| 2015 | Opened a local corporation, Nippon Kaiji Kentei (Myanmar) Ltd. in Myanmar. | |
| 2016 | Certified and registered QMS （ISO9001:2015）. |
