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• WOL Chair and Founder Tomio Watanabe succeeds in producing oyster meat extract tablets

• Watanabe visits oyster farms along the Sanriku coast in northeastern Japan

• November: WOL organizes its first special lecture on oyster health benefits in Okinawa and Tokyo to commemorate the first visit of PUH president and vice president to Japan

• October: WOL organizes a second special lecture in Tokyo commemorating the visit of a senior PUH delegation to Japan

• April: CEO Watanabe receives Contribution to Education Award from PUH

• June: CEO Watanabe delivers a lecture at a food and health forum organized by the Japan Mibyou System Association

• February: CEO Watanabe is appointed academic advisor by PUH

• October: CEO Watanabe delivers a lecture at a food and health forum organized by the Japan Mibyou System Association

• New WOL head office building is completed next to the previous facility

• October: New main office completion is celebrated

• July 25: WOL organizes a third special lecture in Tokyo commemorating the visit of senior PUH delegation; Chair Watanabe honored by PUH with an award

• January: WOL participates in the 1st Integrated Medicine Exhibition and Conference

• July: WOL attends the 1st International Oyster Symposium in Tokyo and CEO Watanabe gives presentation

• November: Watanabe Active Oyster Drink goes on sale

• August 21: 1st China-Japan Preventive Medicine Academic Exchange Conference is held at Peking University commemorating the 15th anniversary of the PUH-WOL exchange (the entire WOL workforce also took part in the event under employee training program); WOL and PUH sign an academic exchange agreement; CEO Watanabe is appointed preventive medicine academic advisor by PUH

• December: Japanese Institute for Health Food Standards certifies WOL as GMP manufacturer

• March: WOL sets up Center of Counselors throughout Japan
  

• Oyster Research Institute general director Katsuyoshi Mori is appointed WOL chief academic advisor

• September 1: the first center of counselors’ conference is held

• October: Dean of China’s Zhejiang University College of Animal Sciences leads a goodwill delegation to WOL

• November: WOL attends the 2nd International Oyster Symposium in Hangzhou, China, and CEO Watanabe, representing Japan, delivers a keynote address

• August: WOL and Professor Atsushi Takeda of the University of Shizuoka launch joint research project

• November: WOL attends the 3rd International Oyster Symposium in Taiwan; CEO Watanabe’s presentation read by proxy

• January: WOL makes a donation to the Hokkaido University Graduate School to launch its Research Department of Food and Nutrition for Health Promotion

• August: An 11-member Zhejiang University delegation arrives at WOL as part of a training course

• August 27: The 2nd China-Japan Preventive Medicine Academic Exchange Conference is held at PUH, and CEO Watanabe is appointed preventive medicine academic advisor by the hospital (the entire WOL workforce also took part in the event under its employee training program)

• September: CEO Watanabe gives a presentation at the 4th International Oyster Symposium held in Tasmania, Australia

• September 23: The 3rd China-Japan Preventive Medicine Academic Exchange Conference is held at PUH; a center of counselors’ conference is held concurrently

• October: Dr. Huang Peian of the Taiwan Fisheries Research Institute visits WOL

• December: WOL attends the International Postgraduate Conference on Biotechnology 2011 held at University Malaysia Terengganu

• April: CEO Watanabe delivers a lecture at the 3rd Japanese Anti-Aging Surgery and Regenerative Medicine for Rejuvenation Tokyo Live Forum, where WOL holds a corporate exhibition

• In July, a WOL researcher gives presentation at the Japan Society for Biomedical Research on Trace Elements conference

• August: 11 students of Zhejiang University College of Animal Sciences led by Vice President Du Aifang visit WOL

• August: 11 Dr. Yoshihiro Urade of the Osaka Bioscience Institute visits WOL

• October: WOL makes a panel presentation at the 10th Japan Society of Self-medication conference

• October: WOL makes a panel presentation at the 19th Japan Mibyou System Association conference

• December: A Universiti Malaysia Terengganu delegation led by Deputy Vice Chancellor Dr. Mohd Effendy bin Abdul Wahid visits WOL

• December: WOL makes a panel presentation at the 7th Asian Sleep Research Society conference

• February: Our “Watanabe active oyster” product series receives the “Safety Evaluation Award” for the 25th “Big Hit Product Award and Popular Product Award” held by the Yachiyo-kai of Drugmagazine Co., Ltd.

• September: CEO Watanabe delivers a lecture at the 4th Japanese Anti-Aging Surgery and Regenerative Medicine for Rejuvenation Tokyo Live Forum, with WOL holding a corporate exhibition

• October: WOL makes a panel presentation at the 11th Japan Society of Self-medication conference

• October: CEO Watanabe delivers a keynote lecture, and 2 WOL researchers give a presentation at the Marine and Natural Products for Health Science 2013 symposium held at Zhejiang University, China (the entire WOL workforce also took part in the event under its employee training program)

• November: WOL holds a panel presentation and corporate exhibition at the 20th Japan Mibyou System Association conference

• December: CEO Watanabe delivers a keynote lecture at the 5th International Oyster Symposium held concurrently with the Asian Pacific Aquaculture Conference 2013 in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam; a WOL researcher gives a poster presentation, and receives a young researchers award; CEO Watanabe is appointed director of the Japanese Chapter of the World Oyster Society

• February: CEO Watanabe delivers a lecture on the antioxidative effects and novel antioxidant of Crassostrea gigas at the 10th Integrated Medicine Exhibition and Conference in Tokyo

• IMEC2014に出展

• April: A delegation led by the PUH president visits WOL and re-appoints CEO Watanabe PUH academic advisor

• July: CEO Watanabe gives a presentation at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Sleep Research, receiving a Best Presentation Award as one of the best 6 of the 346 presentations made
  　

• August: A student delegation of Zhejiang University College of Animal Sciences visits WOL under an internship program

• August: CEO Watanabe speaks as a guest lecturer at the 2nd International Postgraduate Conference on Biotechnology held at Soka University, Japan