Kazuo Mineki, eldest son of Shigeru Mineki, is born in Bisai-Okoshi-cho,　Ichinomiya-shi, a place that served as a center of the textiles industry.
This year sees an unprecedented economic boom and runaway inflation due to World War I.

With the sudden death of Shigeru Mineki at the age of thirty-six, Sukesaburo Kondo (Shigeru Mineki’s brother-in-law) takes over the company.
The stock market in New York crashes this year, plunging the world into the Great Depression.

• Kazuo Mineki is called up to serve in the army.
• With inventory consolidation and the collection of receivables taking several days to complete, the company suffers a series of economic blows.
• Kazuo Mineki is dispatched as a medic to China, where he works at various field hospitals in Shanghai, Jiujiang, and Wuhan.
• Kazuo Mineki meets Yaeno, an army nurse from Himeji; the two later get married after returning home.

• Kazuo Mineki is called up again and dispatched as a medic attached to a Special Attack Unit in the Philippines near the end of the Second World War.
• Kazuo Mineki’s ship is sunk by U.S. naval forces in Lingayen Gulf near Manila.
• Kazuo Mineki evades capture by U.S. military forces for a year by hiding in the jungles of the Philippines.

• Kazuo Mineki is interned for a year in the Batangas Prisoner of War Camp south of Manila after the end of the war.
  During his time spent as a prisoner of war, Kazuo Mineki forms a strong impression of American rationalism.

• Kazuo Mineki is repatriated from the Philippines.
• He visually takes in all the different ways in which Japan, and Nagoya in particular, have changed during his absence and also learns that his grandmother has died.

• On land by the Shinhori River that was left to him by his father, Kazuo Mineki resumes operations of the family’s lumber business.
• With the capital of 180,000 yen and in collaboration with a friend, Kazuo Mineki inherits his predecessor’s Marumi trade name and establishes Marumi & Co., Ltd., a company with an initial workforce of just three.
• The company tenders’ bids in Hokkaido and ships various types of timber for furniture – including oak, ash, cork, sen, and katsura – from the Port of Muroran to the Port of Nagoya.
• Due to the lack of a proper system of marine insurance, these are difficult undertakings as accidents during transportation and other problems constantly arise.
• Hokkaido-sourced hardwood lumber sells rapidly thanks to postwar reconstruction, giving impetus to the growth and development of Marumi & Co., Ltd.

• A branch office is opened in Shirotori, Atsuta Ward, along the lower reaches of the Hori River; sales of Kiso hinoki cypress wood commence.

• Upon becoming independent of the aforementioned partnership, with a capital of 650,000 yen, Kazuo Mineki establishes Marumi Lumber Co., Ltd. situated along the Shinhori River in Naka Ward, Nagoya-shi.
• Forest land is purchased as part of the company’s plan to engage in forest management operations in the Izu region. Large volumes of lumber from zelkova trees and other high-quality, natural large-diameter trees are produced to contribute substantially to the cultivation of a sound financial foundation for the company.
• In the wake of a typhoon, logs at a quay-side logging site in Izu are washed out to sea, thereby causing substantial damage to fishing boats.
• The company suffers an ongoing series of losses as speculators steal good-quality lumber or abscond with the money used for acquiring lumber.
• With less natural hardwood available for harvest, the company gradually shifts to softwood and its forestry operations from Izu to the Hida region in Gifu.

• The consumption of vast amounts of lumber due to the demand generated by postwar reconstruction causes domestic forests to become depleted and market prices to soar.
• Kazuo Mineki travels to the United States to purchase lumber.

The company’s head office is relocated to the site of a branch office situated adjacent to a sawmill and lumberyard in Shirotori, Atsuta Ward.

• The Typhoon Vera strikes Japan, causing 200,000 tons of lumber in a lumberyard to wash away and sweep across residential areas.
• The company also sustains huge losses when its entire supply of logs in Shirotori is washed away.

• Drawn to the local outdoor life while on numerous business trips to the United States, Kazuo Mineki purchases a private villa on the shore of Lake Yamanaka.
• With a hunch that this could be turned into a business opportunity and having obtained information from a local dealer in Ise-Shima, Mie, the company purchases mountain lots measuring 495,000 square meters and 264,000 square meters in area.
• The company begins to develop and subdivide lots for the construction of villas based on the business savvy built up through forest acquisitions and interactions with speculators.
• This business, which at its core involves semi-detached dwellings, enhances the company’s ties to real estate and helps lay the groundwork that allows the company to subsequently enter the condominium business.

• The company builds a plant in Yajie-cho, Minami Ward, and starts to process and sell metal sashes.

• With the relocation of the hub of lumberyards from Minato Ward to the Nagoya Western Port (Tobishima Village, Aichi), which was built on reclaimed land, the company purchases a site with an area of approximately 26,400 square meters at the Nagoya Western Lumber Port and moves its lumber warehouse to that location.

• The company purchases a mountain with a surface area of 2.6 million square meters in Ontake Highland, Gifu to develop and sell villa lots.

• Trees are planted in a 660,000 square meter forest in Rankoshi-cho, Hokkaido, and are slated for harvest in around 2048 and 2076.

• A pre-cut processing plant (metal fittings method) begins operations, but the plant is shut down after two years due to a failure to get on track.

• Marumi Resort Hida Akigami Kogen Ayumikan opens.
• The Chengdu office in China is opened in response to increased levels of lumber importation.

• Marumi Design & Construction Co., Ltd., is established as a housing construction company.

• Yoshiyuki Minami is appointed president.

• The outmoded head office of the company is renovated.
• Despite being affected by a global recession, the company recovers by steadily engaging in successful sales activities.

• Kazuo Mineki passes away at age 100.
• The long turbulent life of Kazuo Mineki, founder of present day Marumi Sangyo, comes to an end. He was fortunate enough to have lived each day of his later years in a state of happiness.

• Kazushi Mineki is appointed president.