Table: A list of dedicated IEEE Milestones in Japan (as of May 15, 2015)

Year Title of the Milestone, year or range of years the achievement occurred Awarded organization(s)/facility Dedicated

1 Directive Short Wave Antenna, 1924 1995 Tohoku Univ.

2 Mount Fuji Radar System, 1964 2000 Japan Meteorological Agency

3 Tokaido Shinkansen, 1964 2000 JR Tokai

4 Electronic Quartz Wristwatch, 1969 2004 Watch Corp.

5 Pioneering Work on Electronic Calculators, 1964-1973 2005 Sharp Corp.

6 Development of VHS, a World Standard for Home Video Recording, 1976 2006 Victor Company of Japan , Kintetsu Railway, 7 Railroad Ticket Examining System, 1965-1971 2007 Hankyu Railway, Osaka Univ. 8 The First Word Processor for Japanese Language, 1971-1978 2008 Corp.

9 Yosami Radio Transmitting Station, 1929 2009 Yosami Radio Transmitting Station

Tokyo Institute of Technology 10 Development of Ferrite Materials and Their Applications, 1930-1945 2009 TDK Corp. 11 Development of Electronic Television, 1924-1941 2009 Shizuoka Univ.

12 First Transpacific Reception of a Television (TV) Signal via Satellite, 1963 2009 KDDI Corp.

13 Kurobe River No. 4 Hydropower Plant, 1956-63 2010 Kansai Electric Power Co.

14 Commercialization and Industrialization of Photovoltaic Cells, 1959 2010 Sharp Corp.

15 First Direct Broadcast Satellite Service, 1984 2011 NHK

16 First Practical Field Emission Electron Microscope, 1972 2012 , Ltd

17 International Standardization of G3 Facsimile, 1980 2012 NTT Corp., KDDI Corp.

18 Toshiba T1100, a Pioneering Contribution to the Development of Laptop PC, 1985 2013 Toshiba Corp. Yai Dry Battery Co., Ltd., 19 Birth and Growth of Primary and Secondary Battery Industries in Japan, 1893 2014 GS Yuasa Corp., Corp. 20 Line Spectrum Pair (LSP) for high compression speech coding, 1975 2014 NTT Corp.

21 Sharp 14-inch TFT LCD for TV, 1988 2014 Sharp Corp.

22 Gapless Metal Oxide Surge Arrester (MOSA) for Electric Power Systems, 1975 2014 Meidensha Corp.

23 20-inch Diameter Photomultiplier Tubes, 1979-1987 2014 Photonics

24 The First Transpacific Cable System (TPC-1), 1964 2014 KDDI Corp.

25 MU Radar, 1984 2015 Kyoto Univ., Corp.