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1978    
Sep.   Council for the] feasibility study of Kansai Science City (Chairman: the late Azuma Okuda, Honorary Professor at Kyoto University) proposed their "New city plan".
1985  
Apr.   Privatization of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation.
Oct.   Japan Key Technology Center established.
1986  
Mar.   Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International established.
Apr.  

ATR Communication Systems Research Laboratories established.
ATR Interpreting Telephony Research Laboratories established.
ATR Auditory and Visual Perception Research Laboratories established.
ATR Optical and Radio Communications Research Laboratories established.

1989  
Apr.   The main ATR laboratories opened.
1991  
May.   Visit by Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress.
1992  
Mar.   ATR Human Information Processing Research Laboratories established.
1993  
Mar.   ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories established.
Apr.   Visit by Their Imperial Highnesses Prince and Princess Akishino.
1994  
Sep.   ITU Kyoto Plenipotentiary Conference held.
Visit by Their Imperial Highnesses the Crown Prince and Crown Princess
1995  
Mar.   ATR Media Integration & Communication Research Laboratories established.
1996  
Mar.   ATR Adaptive Communications Research Laboratories established.
2000  
Jan.   ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories established.
2001  
Oct.   Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories, Adaptive Communications Research Laboratories, Human Information Science Laboratories and Media Information Science Laboratories established at ATR.
2003

May.
Computational NeuroScience Laboratories established.
2004

Apr.
Wave Engineering Laboratories establies.
Network Informatics Laboratories established.
2006

Apr.
Human Information Science Laboratories and Network Informatics Laboratories closed.
Cognitive Information Science Laboratories established.
May.
Knowledge Science Laboratories established.
Brain Activity Imaging Center moved to ATR-Promotions.
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