2006

Aug.	Ikegami Hiroko and Kajiya Kenji propose the idea of an oral history archive.
Nov.	Sumitomo Fumihiko and Washida Meruro join to prepare for the project launch.
Dec.	Adachi Gen, Awata Daisuke, Ikegami, Kajiya, Sumitomo, and Washida found the Oral History Archives of Japanese Art. Thereafter they discuss the scope of archival activities and their interview methods.

2007

Aug.	The Archives’ first interview: artist Shiraga Kazuo.

2008

The Archives receives grants from The Ishibashi Foundation, The Pola Art Foundation, and The Kajima Foundation for the Arts. It also receives financial support from the Osaka University Global COE Program, "Conflict Studies in the Humanities."

Jun.	Makiguchi Chinatsu joins the Archives.
Oct.	Sakagami Shinobu joins the Archives.
Dec.	Kaburaki Azusa joins the Archives.

2009

The Archives receives grants from The Ishibashi Foundation and Hiroshima City University, in addition to further financial support from the Osaka University Global COE Program, "Conflict Studies in the Humanities."

Jan.	Miyata Yūka joins the Archives.
Jun.	The Archives launches its website, offering free public access to nine oral history interviews.
Jul.	Nakajima Izumi joins the Archives.
Sep.	Tsuji Yasutaka joins the Archives.
Nov.	The Archives holds its first symposium, titled "The Possibilities of Oral Art History," at the National Museum of Art, Osaka. Kajiya contributes the essay, "Recounted Art History: Towards Making the Oral History Archives of Japanese Art," to Kajima Bijutsu Kenkyū [Kajima Art Studies].

2010

The Archives receives grants from The Ishibashi Foundation and Hiroshima City University, and further financial support from the Osaka University Global COE Program, "Conflict Studies in the Humanities."

Feb.	The Archives holds its first workshop, titled "Oral History and Understanding Post-WWII Art," at Hiroshima City University.
Mar.	Kajiya contributes the essay, "Oral History Archives of Japanese Art and the Future of Documents on Art," to Aida [In-Between].
May	Ikegami contributes the essay, "Looking back on the symposium The Possibilities of Oral Art History," to Shikaku no genba [Seasonal opinions on visual facts].
Sep.	The Archives uploads its twentieth interview on its website.
Oct.	Ikegami presents the lecture "Toward Oral Histories of Art in Asia" at the sixth Asian Museum Curator’s Conference in Bangalore in India.
Nov.	Kajiya presents the lecture “Practice of the Oral History Archives of Japanese Art” at a symposium titled “Possibilities of Oral History in the Research of Theatre Arts,” organized by Collaborative Research Center for Theatre and Film Arts, the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University, Tokyo. The Archives holds its second symposium, titled “The Practices of Oral Art History,” at the National Museum of Art, Osaka. The participants are Ikegami Hiroko, Kajiya Kenji, Kuroda Raiji, Sakagami Shinobu, Sumitomo Fumihiko and Hirai Shōichi.

2011

The Archives receives grants from The Ishibashi Foundation, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research) and Hiroshima City University.

Nov.	The Archives holds its second workshop with Kato Mizuho and Honnami Kiyoshi at Osaka University Nakanoshima Center. The Archives uploads its thirtieth interview on its website.

2012

The Archives receives grants from The Ishibashi Foundation and Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research).

Oct.	Kajiya contributes the essay, “The Significance of the Oral History Archives of Japanese Art and Other Art Archives,” to AMeeT. An English translation of an excerpt from the Archives’ interview with Shinohara Ushio is printed in Shinohara Pops! Avant-Garde Road, Tokyo/New York (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012). The Archives uploads its fortieth interview on its website.
Dec.	Ikegami contributes the essay, “On the Practice of the Oral History Archives of Japanese Art,” with excerpts from the Archives’ interviews with Sugiura Kunie and Ishiuchi Miyako included, to Field Notes, a section of the website of Asia Art Archive.

2013

The Archives receives grants from The Ishibashi Foundation; Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research); and the Pola Art Foundation.

Feb.	An English translation of an excerpt from the Archives’ interview with Yamaguchi Katsuhiro is published on post, an online resource of Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Mar.	The Archives holds its third workshop with Egami Yuka and Shinohara Seiji at Tsunohazu Library, Shinjuku, Tokyo.
Jul.	A film documentation of the Archives’ interview with Fukuoka Michio is screened in the exhibition “New Acquisitions: The Gallery Shinanobashi Collection” at Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo.
Sep.	The Archives uploads its fiftieth interview on its website.
Oct.	Excerpts from the Archives’ interviews with Arimura Shintetsu and Katō Akira are reprinted in The Flower with the Color of Wind – dialogues for the future (Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppansha, 2013).
Nov.	The Archives holds its fourth workshop with Echigoya Takashi, Sakamoto Hirofumi and Takahashi Ayako at SOHO Plaza, Nagoya.
Dec.	Ikegami presents the lecture “On the Relation between Archives and Oral Histories” at a symposium titled “Artists Words: Archives and Okinawa Art,” held at Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Okinawa.

2014

The Archives receives grants from The Ishibashi Foundation as well as Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research).

Jan.	English translations of excerpts from the Archives’ interviews with Kubota Shigeko and Motonaga Sadamasa are published on post, an online research platform launched by Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Feb.	Kajiya presents the lecture “Art History in Art Archives” at a mini-symposium titled “Aspects of Art Archives,” held at National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo (transcript printed in The Bijutsu Kenkyū [The Journal of Art Studies], No. 415, March 2015).
Apr.	The Archival Research Center is founded as part of Kyoto City University of Arts and it launches three projects titled “Oral History of Postwar Japanese Art,” “Oral History of Fluxus” and “Oral History of Kyoto Painting Circles” in cooperation with the Archives.
Jun.	The Archives uploads its sixtieth interview on its website.
Dec.	Ikegami presents the lecture “Preserving Artists’ Words: On the Practice of the Oral History Archives of Japanese Art”” at Marugame Genichirō-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art.

2015

The Archives receives grants from The Ishibashi Foundation as well as Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research).

Mar.	Retitled as “The Dreamful Age: An Interview with Toshiko Okanoue,” an excerpt from the Archives’ interview with Okanoue is printed in A Long Journey: The Works of Toshiko Okanoue (Tokyo: Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 2015). The Archives uploads its seventieth interview on its website. The Archives starts to donate printed and bound copies of its interviews to National Diet Library; Art Library, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; and Art Library, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo.
Apr.	The first half of the re-edited version of the Archives’ interview with Izumi Tatsu is printed in Aida [In-Between], No. 220.
May	Sakagami Shinobu leaves the Archives.
Jun.	The second half of the re-edited version of the Archives’ interview with Izumi Tatsu is printed in Aida [In-Between], No. 221.
Aug.	Hosoya Shūhei joins the Archives. The Archives collaborates with Archive & Research, Asia Culture Center (Gwangju, Korea) to interview Kato Yoshihiro and Iwata Shinichi.
Nov.	A film documentation of the Archives’ interviews with Okazaki Kazuo and Onishi Nobuaki is screened in the exhibition “Kazuo Okazaki and Nobuaki Onishi: Born Twice” at @KCUA (Kyoto City University of Arts Gallery).
Dec.	Kajiya presents the lecture “The Archive as Prosthetic Supplement” at Archive & Research, Asia Culture Center (Gwangju, Korea).

2016

The Archives receives grants from The Ishibashi Foundation as well as Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research).

Feb.	Washida presents a case study of the Archives at the symposium “Digital Archive in Gifu.” Washida presents a case study of the Archives at the 4th 634 Sweets Break Meeting “Challenges and Pains of Art-related Information Disclosure,” organized by AMANE, LLC, in Kanazawa.
Jun.	Kajiya contributes the essay, “Art Archives: Beyond the Database and Museum Models,” to Bijutsu Techō, vol. 68, no. 1037 (June 2016).
Jul.	Imura Yasuko, Kikukawa Aki, Nonaka Yumiko, Yamashita Kōhei, and Yamamine Junya joins the Archives. The Archives uploads its eightieth interview on its website.