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  Established as Kyoto English Center. Commences an educational program for Japanese as a foreign language together with an English language program.
     
  Intensive Japanese language program for the Colgate University Japan study group, USA. (-every year)
     
  Establishes intensive Japanese course.  Approved by the Immigration Bureau of the Ministry of Justice.
Commences management of the Japanese program of the Puget Sound University “Pacific Rim-Asia Study Program”, USA. (-every three years)
     
  Japanese language program for American instructors, requested by the Board of Education of Ritto-cho, Shiga Prefecture. (1989-1995)
     
     
  Name changed to the Kyoto International Center of Languages. School moved to the present location.
     
  Designated as an institute supporting research and development (subsidized by the Ministry of Education) by the Association for the Promotion of Japanese Language Education. (1997, 2000, 2001, 2004)
     
  Establishes the Preparatory Class for Entrance into College and University in Art and Design.
Accepts graduate students from the School of Design, Xi’an University, China. Pre-college program in preparation for study at the Kyoto University of Art and Design. (-every year)
     
  Establishes Korean office in Seoul, Korea.
     
 

Name changed to Kyoto Institute of Culture and Language. Academic accreditation received from the Governor of Kyoto.
3-month Japanese language training program for student from University of Venice (-every year)

 

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