| A.D. | Japan era | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1861 | English doctor Horace Dobell publishes Lectures on the germs and vestiges of disease, and on the prevention of the invasion and fatality of disease by periodical examinations, the oldest document that touches on the principles for general health exams | ||
| 1926 | George Scott Williamson and others set up membership facilities to conduct health checkups for member workers and their families in London, U.K. | ||
| 1937 | Showa 12 | Under the supervision of Kozo Sakaguchi, a professor of internal medicine at Tokyo Imperial University, two Diet members, Magoichi Tawara and Yukio Sakurauchi, spent a week in hospital for thorough general medical checkups for the purpose of health maintenance, Japan’s first full medical exams | |
| 1949 | Medical checkups called multiphasic health screening (MHS) are conducted in San Jose, California | ||
| 1954 | Showa 29 | One-week hospital stays for full medical checkups begin at First National Hospital of Tokyo (today’s Center Hospital of the National Center for Global Health and Medicine) | |
| 1958 | Showa 33 | Short stay (one night, two days) full medical checkups begin at St. Luke’s International Hospital | |
| 1964 | Oakland, California’s Kaiser Family Foundation has success with automated multiphasic health testing and services (AMHTS), using automated analytic devices and computers to complete numerous patients’ health checkups in under three hours | ||
| 1966 | Showa 41 | September | An article in the Japan edition of Reader’s Digest, The arrival of automated health checkups, features the Kaiser Family Foundation’s AMHTS |
| 1967 -1969 |
Showa 42-44 | Kaiser Family Foundation’s AMHTS receives a succession of observers from Japan | |
| 1970 | Showa 45 | May | Toshiba Health Examination Center opens as Japan’s first automated health checkup facility |
| 1971 | Showa 46 | February | The first International Health Evaluation Association conference held in Honolulu, chaured by Dr. Fred Gilbert of the Straub Clinic and Pacific Health Research Institute |
| 1971 | Showa 46 | May | Automated health checkups begin at Aichi Prefectural Center of Health Care |
| 1971 | Showa 46 | December | Automated health checkup systems are established at Fukuoka Prefectural Center of Health Care and a series of other facilities across the country |
| 1973 | Showa 48 | November 17 | The Japan Society of Automated Multiphasic Health Testing and Services is launched and holds its first conference in Tokyo, chaired by Ryosei Kashida |
| 1974 | Showa 49 | April | The Japan Society of Automated Multiphasic Health Testing and Services publishes the inaugural edition of its journal |
| 1974 | Showa 49 | May | First quality control facilities survey conducted |
| 1975 | Showa 50 | Name changes to the Japan Society of Multiphasic Health Testing and Services | |
| 1978 | Showa 53 | First screening questionnaires for automated multiphasic health testing system | |
| 1985 | Showa 60 | January 26 | Name changes to the Japan Society of Health Evaluation and Promotion |
| 1987 | Showa 62 | January 31 | Shigeaki Hinohara becomes the society’s second chairman |
| 1997 | Heisei 9 | January | Masaki Tamura becomes the society’s third chairman |