1980's

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1980's

	May 1980	Company stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. New shares of common stock in the form of ADRs are issued in the United States for the second time.
	Aug 1980	Shiga Yohkaichi Plant is established.
	May 1981	Kyocera Business Machines Co., Ltd., is established.
	Oct 982	Four affiliates, including Cybernet Electronics Corporation, merge with Kyocera to form Kyocera Corporation.
	Apr 1983	Kyocera Business Machines Co., Ltd., is renamed Kyocera Electronics Co., Ltd.
		Kagoshima Electronics Co., Ltd., merges with Kyocera and becomes Kagoshima Hayato Plant.
	Oct 1983	Kyocera merges with Yashica Co., Ltd.
	Apr 1984	Inamori Foundation is established.
		Tokyo Central Research Laboratory is established.
	Jun 1984	Kyocera establishes Daini-Denden Kikaku Co., Ltd., (DDI Corporation) in cooperation with 24 other companies (photo above left).
	Aug 1984	Solar Energy Center at Chiba Sakura Plant is established.
	May 1986	Kyocera Electronics Europe GmbH, is established in Germany.
	Jul 1986	LSI Design Center is established inside Tokyo Yoga Operation Center.
	Jan 1987	Kyocera America, Inc., and Kyocera Electronics, Inc., are established in California and New Jersey, U.S.A.,respectively.
	May 1987	The company establishes Kyocera Finance Co., Ltd., (now Kyocera Leasing Co., Ltd.) in cooperation with Sanwa Bank Ltd., Bank of Kyoto Ltd., and Daiwa Securities Co., Ltd.
	Jul 1987	Kyocera Mexicana, S.A. de C.V., is established in Mexico (photo above right).
	Sep 1988	Kyocera Europe GmbH, is established in Germany as the European headquarters.
	Aug 1989	Elco Corporation joins the Kyocera group.

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