{"id":12,"date":"2018-03-14T12:30:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T03:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/company.central.co.jp\/en\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2018-05-02T14:32:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T05:32:30","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/company.central.co.jp\/en\/about\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"history"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wrapper\">\r\n<section class=\"contents\">\r\n<div class=\"kvWrapper\">\r\n<div class=\"kv\">\r\n<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pc\" src=\"https:\/\/company.central.co.jp\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/company_en_res\/about\/history\/img\/mainImg.jpg\" width=\"1800\" height=\"254\" alt=\"History\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"sp\" src=\"https:\/\/company.central.co.jp\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/company_en_res\/about\/history\/img\/mainImg_sp.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"158\" alt=\"History\" \/><\/h1>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<ul id=\"breadlist\" class=\"clearfix\">\r\n  <li><a href=\"\/en\/\">TOP<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0&gt;<\/li>\r\n  <li><a href=\"\/en\/about\/\">Company Profile<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0&gt;<\/li>\r\n  <li>History<\/li>\r\n<!-- breadlist--><\/ul>\r\n<div class=\"ctContentsWrapper\">\r\n<div class=\"ctContents\">\r\n<div class=\"historyWrapper\">\r\n<section class=\"history\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>December 1969<\/th>\r\n<td>Establishment of Central Sports Club; the sports club&#8217;s operations started.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>May 1970<\/th>\r\n<td>\r\n<p>Central Sports Club, Inc. was established in Hyakunin-cho. Shinjuku-ku. Tokyo. A swimming school opened in Suginami-ku, Tokyo. The School Department and the Outsourcing Department were established.<\/p>\r\n<div class=\"imgArea\">\r\n<ul class=\"col-2\">\r\n  <li>\r\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/company.central.co.jp\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/company_en_res\/about\/history\/img\/historyImg01.jpg\" width=\"303\" height=\"191\" alt=\"Currently Chairman and Representative Director Tadaharu Goto\" \/>\r\n<figcaption>Currently Chairman and Representative Director Tadaharu Goto<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/li>\r\n  <li>\r\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/company.central.co.jp\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/company_en_res\/about\/history\/img\/historyImg02.jpg\" width=\"303\" height=\"191\" alt=\"Central Sports swimming club meeting ceremony Pool in Suginami-ku, Tokyo\" \/>\r\n<figcaption>Central Sports swimming club meeting ceremony <br \/>\r\n Pool in Suginami-ku, Tokyo<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>March 1977<\/th>\r\n<td>Head office located at Hyakunin-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo and sales offices in Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture and Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo merged as the Headquarters and moved to Takara-cho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>October 1977<\/th>\r\n<td>Governor of Tokyo Domestic Travel Industry Registration was acquired (Number 2152), and travel operations started.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>August 1978<\/th>\r\n<td>Central Trade, Inc. (later Suncrea, Inc., which was merged with Central Sports in October 2004) was established in Uchisaiwai-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, and started its operation as the company&#8217;s Purchasing Department.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>May 1979<\/th>\r\n<td>The trade name changed to Central Sports, Inc.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>October 1979<\/th>\r\n<td>Central Facilities, Inc. (In January 2000 it was merged with the consolidated subsidiary Suncrea, Ind.) was established in Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, and started its facility management business. Suncrea, Inc.) was established in Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, and started its facility management business.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>May 1980<\/th>\r\n<td>Kansai Headquarters (currently Ashiya office) was established in Higashiyodogawa-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>July 1981<\/th>\r\n<td>North Japan Sales Department (currently Sendai Office) was established in Futabagaoka, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>April 1982<\/th>\r\n<td>\r\n<p>Central Sports Research Institute was established in Ainokawa, Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture.<\/p>\r\n<div class=\"imgArea\">\r\n<ul class=\"col-2\">\r\n  <li>\r\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/company.central.co.jp\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/company_en_res\/about\/history\/img\/historyImg03.jpg\" width=\"303\" height=\"191\" alt=\"Swim mill research\" \/>\r\n<figcaption>Swim mill research<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/li>\r\n  <li>\r\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/company.central.co.jp\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/company_en_res\/about\/history\/img\/historyImg04.jpg\" width=\"303\" height=\"191\" alt=\"Research using arm power\" \/>\r\n<figcaption>Research using arm power<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>October 1983<\/th>\r\n<td>\r\n<p>The Headquarters were transferred to Higashi-shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo.<\/p>\r\n<div class=\"imgArea\">\r\n<ul class=\"col-3\">\r\n  <li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/company.central.co.jp\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/company_en_res\/about\/history\/img\/historyImg05.jpg\" width=\"238\" height=\"191\" alt=\"\" \/><\/li>\r\n  <li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/company.central.co.jp\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/company_en_res\/about\/history\/img\/historyImg06.jpg\" width=\"238\" height=\"191\" alt=\"\" \/><\/li>\r\n  <li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/company.central.co.jp\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/company_en_res\/about\/history\/img\/historyImg07.jpg\" width=\"238\" height=\"191\" alt=\"\" \/><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>April 1984<\/th>\r\n<td>Top Athletes, Inc. was established as an outsourcing company in Higashi-shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo (for management operations outsourcing).<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>January 1986<\/th>\r\n<td>Responding to increasing corporate demands, the Fitness Operations Department (currently Health Support Department) started its operations as a corporate business department. The Fitness Operations Department&#8217;s activities continued as Academy Headquarters (currently Academy Division).<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>October 1986<\/th>\r\n<td>West Japan Sales Department (currently Ashiya office) was transferred to Funato-cho, Ashiya City, Hyogo Prefecture.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>December 1986<\/th>\r\n<td>\r\n<p>Central Sports Diving Association (DACS = Diving Association of Central Sports) was established.<\/p>\r\n<div class=\"imgArea\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/company.central.co.jp\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/company_en_res\/about\/history\/img\/historyImg08.jpg\" width=\"303\" height=\"225\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>April 1988<\/th>\r\n<td>Marine Sports Department (currently Leisure Operations Division) was newly established.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>September 1988<\/th>\r\n<td>\r\n<p>Daichi Suzuki won Men&#8217;s 100m Backstroke gold medal at Seoul Olympics.<\/p>\r\n<div class=\"imgArea\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/company.central.co.jp\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/company_en_res\/about\/history\/img\/historyImg09.jpg\" width=\"303\" height=\"191\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>March 1989<\/th>\r\n<td>North Japan Sales Division Headquarters was transferred to Chuo, Aoba-ku, Sendai City (currently Sendai office).<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>May 1991<\/th>\r\n<td>KG Central Sports (currently a consolidated subsidiary) was established in Chuo-ku, Sapporo City, Hokkaido. In November of the same year, KG Central Fitness Club Yamahana was established (currently for instruction operations outsourcing).<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>September 1991<\/th>\r\n<td>Central Sports U.S.A., Inc. (currently a consolidated subsidiary) was established in Denver City, Colorado, the United States, with the aim of providing golf course management guidance. In November of the same year, Meridian Central, Inc. (currently a consolidated subsidiary) was established and, with the acquisition of Meridian Golf Club, started golf course management.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>April 1993<\/th>\r\n<td>The Headquarters were transferred to Shinkawa, Chuo-ku, Tokyo.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>May 1993<\/th>\r\n<td>Approved by the Ministry of Transport, Japan for registration of Travel Industry Type 1, (no. 1184).<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>June 1996<\/th>\r\n<td>\r\n<p>Tennozu Sports, Inc. was established in Higashi-shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo. In October of the same year. Tennozu Sports Fitness Club (currently Central Fitness Club Tennozu) was established, for instruction operations outsourcing.<\/p>\r\n<div class=\"imgArea\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/company.central.co.jp\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/company_en_res\/about\/history\/img\/historyImg10.jpg\" width=\"303\" height=\"191\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>April 1999<\/th>\r\n<td>\r\n<p>Central Wellness Club, the new-style club of the 21st century concerned with mental and physical health, was established.<\/p>\r\n<div class=\"imgArea\">\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/company.central.co.jp\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/company_en_res\/about\/history\/img\/historyImg11.jpg\" width=\"303\" height=\"191\" alt=\"\" \/><\/li>\r\n  <li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/company.central.co.jp\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/company_en_res\/about\/history\/img\/historyImg12.jpg\" width=\"303\" height=\"191\" alt=\"\" \/><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>June 1999<\/th>\r\n<td>For the first time in the fitness club industry, ISO009 was acquired.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>January 2000<\/th>\r\n<td>The consolidated subsidiary Suncrea, Inc. and Central Facilities, Inc. merged. The trade name changed to Suncrea, Inc.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>July 2000<\/th>\r\n<td>Acquisition of the whole business of the consolidated subsidiary Top Athletes, Inc. The clubs ran by the same company became tenant clubs.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>November 2000<\/th>\r\n<td>Over-the-counter shares registration at Japan Security Dealers Association.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>March 2002<\/th>\r\n<td>Listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Market, Second Section.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>November 2002<\/th>\r\n<td>North Japan Sales Department (currently Sendai office) was transferred to Showa-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai City.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>October 2003<\/th>\r\n<td>Acquisition of all shares of Nankai Sports, Inc., the trade name changed to West Japan Central Sports, Inc.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>March 2004<\/th>\r\n<td>Listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Market, First Section.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>August 2004<\/th>\r\n<td>\r\n<p>Four participants at the Athens Olympics; Hiroyuki Tomita, Takehiro Kashima, Tomomi Morita and Noriko Inada. A total of six gold, silver and bronze medals won.<\/p>\r\n<div class=\"imgArea\">\r\n<ul class=\"col-3\">\r\n  <li>\r\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/company.central.co.jp\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/company_en_res\/about\/history\/img\/historyImg13.jpg\" width=\"238\" height=\"191\" alt=\"Hiroyuki Tomita\" \/>\r\n<figcaption>Hiroyuki Tomita<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/li>\r\n  <li>\r\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/company.central.co.jp\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/company_en_res\/about\/history\/img\/historyImg14.jpg\" width=\"238\" height=\"191\" alt=\"Takehiro Kashima\" \/>\r\n<figcaption>Takehiro Kashima<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/li>\r\n  <li>\r\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/company.central.co.jp\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/company_en_res\/about\/history\/img\/historyImg15.jpg\" width=\"238\" height=\"191\" alt=\"Tomomi Morita\" \/>\r\n<figcaption>Tomomi Morita<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>October 2004<\/th>\r\n<td>Friendly merger with the consolidated subsidiary Suncrea, Inc.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>December 2004<\/th>\r\n<td>Acquisition of the whole business of the consolidated subsidiary West Japan Central Sports, Inc. <br \/>\r\n Obtained &#8220;Tokyo Governor Registration No. 50471&#8221; and registered the &#8220;First-class Architect&#8217;s Office&#8221;.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>January 2005<\/th>\r\n<td>Obtained &#8220;First-class Architect Business Permit&#8221; (Tokyo Governor Approval (General-16) No. 123200).<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>March 2005<\/th>\r\n<td>Liquidation of one of the consolidated companies, West Japan Central Sports Co., Ltd.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>November 2006<\/th>\r\n<td>Headquarters were transferred to 1-21-2, Shinkawa, Chuo-ku, Tokyo.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>December 2006<\/th>\r\n<td>Invested in the United States sports club management company Wellbridge.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>April 2007<\/th>\r\n<td>Acquisition of the whole business of the unconsolidated subsidiary Tennozu Sports, Inc.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>August 2008<\/th>\r\n<td>Five participants at the Peking Olympics; Hiroyuki Tomita, Tekehiro Kashima, Tomomi Morita, Hanae Ito and Yasunori Mononobe. Won two men&#8217;s gymnastics team silver medals.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>December 2012<\/th>\r\n<td>Security Business (No.30003793) was certified by the Tokyo Metropolitan Public Safety Commission.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>January 2013<\/th>\r\n<td>Obtained License for General Worker Dispatching Undertakings (General 13-305242) from Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>August 2013<\/th>\r\n<td>Obtained all shares of Meiji Sports Plaza, Inc. and merged into Central Sports as a consolidated subsidiary. <br \/>\r\n Overseas expedition to Hawaii for qualified children from the swimming school.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>April 2014<\/th>\r\n<td>Seiji Goto named President and Representative Director. Tadaharu Goto appointed Chairman and Representative Director.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>July 2015<\/th>\r\n<td>Concluded comprehensive agreement on cooperation with Juntendo University.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>August 2016<\/th>\r\n<td>Miho Teramura, a swimmer, participated in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<\/section>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOP\u00a0\u00a0&gt; Company Profile\u00a0\u00a0&gt; History December 1969 Establishment of Central Sports Club; the sports club&#038;#8 [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"parent":4,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-history.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 02:25:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"private","terms":[],"taxonomy":""},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/company.central.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/company.central.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/company.central.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/company.central.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/company.central.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/company.central.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/company.central.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/115"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/company.central.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/company.central.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}