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Shimadzu Corporation Celebrates Its 140th Anniversary This Year

Shimadzu Corporation was founded in Kyoto in 1875, by Genzo Shimadzu Sr., a Buddhist altar
craftsman, manufacturing physics and chemistry instruments.
Later, Shimadzu Corporation grew significantly under the leadership of Genzo’s eldest son, Genzo
Jr., who showed a rare talent as a remarkable inventor.
In this way, Shimadzu progressed hand-in-hand with science, building itself into a leader in
technology.
This culture of “Contributing to Society through Science and Technology” has been inherited by
each new generation of employees at Shimadzu Corporation and now is being expanded globally
through the growth of the Shimadzu Group, which continues to be rooted in science and
committed to Shimadzu’s management principle “Realizing Our Wishes for the Well-being of both
Mankind and the Earth”.

SHIMADZU 2015 140th anniversary of the company’s foundation.

HISTORY 2012 Established the Shimadzu Group brand
statement “Excellence in Science”.
2002 Koichi Tanaka was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1989 Acquired Kratos in the U.K. Kratos, at the time it was acquired
1975 Established SSI in the U.S.
1963 Established the New York office.
1956 Developed Japan’s first gas chromatograph.

1934 Started to manufacture spectroscopy
and X-ray analysis systems.
1930 Genzo Shimadzu Jr. was recognized by the Emperor
as one of the ten greatest inventors of Japan.

1923 Established the Berlin office.
1919 Established the Sanjo Works.
1917 Reorganized as a joint-stock company with a capital of 2 million yen.
1909 Created the first medical X-ray device in Japan.

1875 Genzo Shimadzu Sr. established a business in
the Kiyamachi-Nijo-Minami district in Kyoto.

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