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1919
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Kobokan settlement house founded in Honjo Matsukuracho. Programmes included vocational workshops and rehabilitation programmes for the unemployed, baby-sitting services for working parents, and a health clinic.
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1929
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Kobokan built a new building on its present location in Kyojima after the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. Health counselling was added to the existing programs.
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1936
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Opening of a full-time clinic approved.
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1940
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Kutsukake-Gakuso (Children's home) was opened in Karuizawa, Nagano prefecture. The purpose of this home was to provide physical, emotional, spiritual and religious care to workers, young people and children.
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1944
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Kutsukake-Gakuso became a place of refuge during World War II for mothers and children whose fathers were killed in the war.
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1945
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War ended August 15th. By November, orphaned children of Japanese parents returned home from countries invaded by Japan. Many of these children sought refuge at the Karuizawa children's home.
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1948
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Kobokan certified by public authority to provide a day nursery and residential child care services.
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1952
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Kobokan certified as a social welfare foundation to provide day nursery, residential child care and community activities.
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1956
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Community activities division approved as a certified children's educational and recreational facility.
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1970
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Gymnasium built for the young workers. Kobokan's fiftieth anniversary celebrated. |
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1984
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Regular programme of activities for the elderly started.
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1989
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Supporting Association founded in April. Seventieth anniversary celebrated.
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1990
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Some renovation carried out in the Nursery school. Lunch service program for the elderly started in June.
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1991
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The number of children entering the Nursery School fell from 219 to 170.
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1993
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After School Care Program and the Independent Living Program given government approval. Kobokan Kindergarten integrated into the Nursery school.
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1995
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Ground floor of the main building renovated. 75th Anniversary Booklet published in October.
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2001
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Further renovation work completed in gymnasium and nursery school.
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2008
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After school club branch opened in annex building.
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