1944

• NEC becomes the first company in Japan to successfully test microwave multiplex communications

1939

• Research laboratory is established in the Tamagawa Plant

1937

• Japan 's Ministry of Communications is supplied with nonloaded line carrier equipment for long-distance telephone channels

1934

• China Xinjing Station is supplied with 100kw radio broadcasting system

1929

• Japan's Ministry of Communications supplied with NECs A-type switching system, the first of its kind to be developed in Japan

1928

• A phototelegraphic equipment is developed and successfully used to transmit photos of the enthronement from Kyoto to Tokyo

1925

• Electron tube development program starts

• Radio Tokyo, Japan 's first broadcasting organisation, is supplied with Western Electric Company broadcasting equipment imported by NEC

1924

• Radio communications business begins

1901

• Production facilities are modernised with construction of Mita Plant at the site of the present head office

1899

• Nippon Electric Company Ltd. is established with Western Electric Company of the United States to become the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital

1899

• Production, sales and maintenance of telephones and switching systems begin