▪1981 International Year of Disabled Persons (IYDP)
▪1986 IFLA Tokyo
▪1991 IFLA SLB Asian Seminar on Library Services for the Blind, Tokyo
▪1992 IFLA SLB Asian Seminar on Library Services for the Blind, Deradun
▪1994 IFLA SLB Latin American Seminar on Library Services to the Blind, Habana
▪1996 Foundation of the DAISY Consortium
▪1999-2000 Nation wide implementation of DAISY in Japan
▪2003-2005 World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS); Global Forum on Disability in the Information Society; Disability Focal Point
▪2003-2008 DAISY for All Project
▪2006 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
▪2010 Revision of Japanese Copyright Law to change the principle of exceptions and limitations: harmonizing the rights: launching of downloading distribution of DAISY multimedia to persons with print disabilities
▪2010 International Symposium Ensuring and Promoting Access to Information through DAISY
▪2011 Release of EPUB3 by IDPF; merger of DAISY and EPUB
▪2014 Japan ratified the CRPD as 141st country (including EU)