| 1988 | “Center of Japanese Language”, the predecessor of the current Center for Japanese Language: CJL , was established. | 
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| 2001 | Graduate School of Japanese Applied Linguistics was established (master’s program with a Japanese language education major). – First graduate school with an applied Japanese linguistics program in Japan. | 
| April 2003 | Doctoral program was established. | 
| May 2003 | Anniversary symposium for the establishment of the doctoral program of “Japanese language education in the future” was held. | 
| March 2005 | 1st meeting of academic conference for Teaching Japanese of Waseda University was held. | 
| May 2006 | Anniversary symposium for the establishment of the doctoral program (graduates of first period) of “What is Japanese language education? – Aiming at independence and disciplinary of Japanese language education” was held. | 
| May 2011 | 10th Anniversary symposium was held. | 
| September 2015 | 15th Anniversary symposium was held. | 
| April-November 2016 | 15th Anniversary Lecture Series were held. |