IBM Yamato Facility located in the city of Yamato, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, is where IBM's research and development activities are done for IBM's worldwide and Asia-Pacific region market. Its buildings were designed by the architecture firm of Nikken Sekkei Ltd. and completed in 1985.
General
IBM Yamato Facility houses IBM's research and development centers in Japan. Its address is 1623-14, Shimo-tsuruma, Yamato City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Its buildings were completed in 1985.
IBM did in Japan small-scale development activities, using RPQ procedure at its Special Engineering department - 1960s
IBM Japan Development Laboratory (JDL) was established in Tokyo - 1972
JDL moved to IBM Fujisawa Plant site, becoming IBM Fujisawa Dvelopment Laboratory (FDL) - 1975
FDL moved to the current site, becoming IBM Yamato Development Laboratory (usually called Yamato Lab, not as YDL). IBM Tokyo Programming Center (VM/Office System, Banking System, Retail System, etc.) at Kawasaki also moved here. - 1985
IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory also moved to Yamato - 1993
The Development Lab Directors (or those who were in charge of Development & Manufacturing) were:
Edward V. Hoffler (1971-1974)
Nobuo Mii (1974-1977)
Keiichiro Meigo
Hajime Watabe
Toshio Yasui (1987-1991)
Kiyoji Ishida
Tsutomu Maruyama
Yukako Uchinaga (2004-2007)
Yoshinori Sakaue (2007-2008)
Kazushi Kuse (2009- )
Development Project Areas
According to IBM Japan, [2] there are at IBM Yamato Facility these projects:
server systems, storage systems, embedded hardware, communication systems, printers, retail store systems, application systems, telecommunication, Internet related, pervasive computing, finance industry systems, CRM, BI, and technical and consulting services about hardware and software.
IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory
IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, also known as TRL, was established in 1983, as IBM's first recearch center in Asia、It was initially located in Tokyo, but moved to the Yamato site in 1993. It is involved in the basic researches, in association with IBM's other recearch centers at Yorktown Heights, New York (Thomas J. Watson Research Center); Zurich, Switzerland; etc. In 2008, there are 200 researchers.
