Here's a timeline of how events in Fuji's history unfolded and some of the company's awards and milestones:
> 1938 – Rintaro Ohmura establishes a company that manufactures engraving equipment and die-making products. The new company receives the Japanese Invention Association Award for Automation in Manufacturing.
> 1959 – The company receives the Shizouka Prefecture Design Prize and the Shizuoka City Industrial Merit Award for manufacturing watchbands.
> 1963 – Fuji registers with the Japanese government to produce a fishing-rod guide.
> 1965 – Fuji becomes a manufacturer of solely fishing-rod components.
> 1967 – Fuji invents the first ceramic fishing guide made from aluminum oxide.
> 1969 – The Fuji brand is registered in 31 countries worldwide and Ryuichi Ohmura (Rintarao's son and by then company president) receives the Shizouka Prefecture Governor’s Award for Excellence.
> 1970 – The modern-day Fuji factory is built in Shizuoka.
> 1973 – Ryuichi Ohmura receives the Royal Prize of 5th Order of “Soko-Kyokujitsu-Sho.”
> 1981 – Fuji introduces the first silicon carbide guide ring, which is still unsurpassed in hardness and heat-dissipation capability.
> 1991 – Ryuichi Ohmura is awarded the General Secretary’s Award of Social Insurance for his contribution to pension plans.
> 1993 – Ryuichi Ohmura receives the Japanese Governor of Science award.
