| 1874 | Establishment of Tokyo Kaisei School, which has the first classes on psychology taught in Japan |
| 1875 |
Amane Nishi first used the word “shinrigaku” for translating “Mental Philosophy including Intellect, Sensibilities, and Will”; the word is generally used now to refer to "Psychology"
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| 1892 |
G.T. Ladd came to Japan (he would visit again in 1900 and 1906)
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 GT Ladd and a monument erected in his honor |
| 1903 |
Yujiro Motora founded the first psychological laboratory in Japan at Tokyo Imperial University
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 First psychological laboratory at Tokyo Imperial University A: Chronometry room; B: Dark room; C: Vision room; D: Library; E: Apparatus room; F: Lecture room; G: Chronometry room; H: Sound-proof room; I: Audition room; J: work shop; K: Professor’s office |
| 1906 | First course in Psychology at Kyoto Imperial University Matataro Matsumoto founded psychological laboratory at Kyoto Imperial University |
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| 1909 | The first “Shinrigaku TuwaKodoku kai (Psychological Popular Lecture)” was given |
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| 1912 | Tsuruko Haraguchi earned a Ph.D. at Columbia University, the first Japanese woman to do so |
| 1920 | Masakate Morita developed his original treatment for anxiety, Morita Therapy |
| 1921 | Sadaji Takagi initially introduced Gestalt psychology to Japan |
| 1922 | Megumi Imada founded the psychological laboratory at Kwansei Gakuin University |
| 1923 | Tanenari Chiba founded the psychological laboratory at Tohoku Imperial University
Toru Watanabe founded the psychological laboratory at Nihon University |
| 1926 | Keijo Imperial University established Office for psychology
Matsuzaburo Yokoyama founded psychological laboratory at Keio University |
| 1927 | Keijo Imperial University established psychology laboratory
Mantaro Kido founded psychological laboratory at Hosei University Kanae Sakuma founded psychological laboratory at Kyushu Imperial University Yahei Motomiya founded psychological laboratory at Doshisha University First Congress of Japanese Psychological Association at Tokyo Imperial University |
 Commemorative photo of the First Congress of Japanese Psychological Association at Tokyo Imperial University |
| 1928 | Taihoku Imperial University established an office for psychology |
| 1929 | Yoshihide Kubo founded a psychological laboratory at Hiroshima Bunrika University
Kanichi Tanaka founded a psychological laboratory at Tokyo Bunrika University |
| 1931 | Establishment of the Japan Association of Applied Psychology
Pouro Akamatsu founded psychological laboratory at Waseda University |
| 1933 | Establishment of the Japanese Society for Animal Psychology
“Tohoku psychologia Folia” was first published Taihoku Imperial University established a psychological laboratory |
| 1936 | E. Spranger visited Japan for one year as a participant in the exchange academic program of Germany and Japan |
 Mr. and Ms. Spranger at Kyoto Imperial University |
| 1946 | Establishment of Japanese Association of Criminal Psychology |
| 1949 | Establishment of the Japanese Group Dynamic Association |
| 1950 | Establishment of Japanese Association of Criminal Psychology |
| 1951 | Japan officially joined the International Union of Scientific Psychology (now the International Union of Psychological Science) |
| 1952 | Establishment of Japanese Association of Educational Psychology |
| 1960 | Establishment of Japanese Society of Social Psychology |
| 1972 | 20th International Congress of Psychology was held in Japan |
 Opening ceremony at 20th International Congress of Psychology |
| 1981 | Establishment of the Japanese Psychonomic Society |
References
Tadasu Oyama, Tatsuya Sato, Yuko Suzuki (2001). Shaping of Scientific Psychology in Japan. International Union of Psychological Science.
- Retrieved from http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/pp/00207594.html
The Japan Association of Applied Psychology (http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jaap/)
Tatsuya SATO, Hazime Mizoguchi, (1997). Tsushi Nihon-no-shinrigaku. Kyoto: Kitaoji Shobo.
Hihonshinrigakkai 75shi (The 75 years’ history of Japanese Psychological Association)
Japanese Society for Animal Psychology (http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jsap2/)
The Japanese Group Dynamics Association (http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jgda/index-j.html)
The Japanese Society of Social Psychology (http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jssp/)
The Japanese Association of Educational Psychology (http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jaep/)
The Japanese Association of Clinical Psychology (http://gakkai.umin.ac.jp/gakkai/gakkai/2002/A00533.htm)
The Japanese Psychonomic Society. (http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/psychono/about/index.html)
Japanese Association of Criminal Psychology (http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jacp2/)