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| November 1908 | Founder Ichiro Tamura constructed Daiichi-Maru (199 gross tons), the first steel-frame trawler in Japan. |
| May 1911 | Ichiro Tamura established the Tamura Steamship Fishery Division in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, and started trawling in cooperation with Kosuke Kunishi and other people (foundation of Nippon Suisan). |
| September 1919 | The Division reorganized into a corporation under the name of Kyodo Gyogyo. |
| February 1920 | Hayatomo Fishery Research Group, the first private fishery research organization in Japan, was established. |
| November 1927 | Kushiro-Maru, the first full-scale diesel engine trawler in Japan, was completed. |
| December 1929 | The base of fishery moved from Shimonoseki to Tobata, Fukuoka Prefecture. |
| December 1934 | First whaling expedition conducted in the Antarctic Ocean. |
| March 1937 | Company name changed to Nippon Suisan. |
| December 1942 | The cold storage and marketing divisions separated and transferred to Teikoku Suisan Tosei (presently Nichirei Corp.) founded in accordance with the Fishery Control Ordinance. |
| Mach 1943 | The fishery division separated and transferred to Nippon Kaiyo Gyogyo Tosei. |
| December 1945 | Nippon Kaiyo Gyogyo Tosei restored its name to Nippon Suisan. |
| November 1946 | First postwar whaling expedition conducted in the Antarctic Ocean with permission of the General Headquarters (GHQ). |
| May 1949 | Nippon Suisan listed its shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. |
| June 1949 | Hakodate Canning Plant was established (fish processing restored). |
| May 1952 | North-sea fisheries reopened and NISSUI's mother ship-type salmon and trout fleet began fishing. |
| October 1952 | Full-scale production of fish sausage started at the Tobata Plant. |
| June 1962 | Hachioji General Plant completed for the mass production of processed food. |
| April 1966 | Head office moved to the present address (Nippon Building in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo). |
| May 1974 | Unisea founded in the U.S. |
| October 1974 | NISSUI's fishing boat began fishing for krill operations in the Antarctic Ocean. |
| October 1978 | EMDEPES founded in Santiago, Chile, as a fishery base. |
| April 1981 | PESPASA founded in Buenos Aires, Argentina, as a fishery base. |
| 1988 | U.S. fishing quota for foreign vessels in the North Pacific Ocean abolished (virtually ending fishing in this area). |
| December 1988 | NISSUI acquired Salmones Antartica, a salmon and trout aquaculture company in Chile. |
| March 1990 | NISSUI obtained approval to make "EPA-E NISSUI," a drug substance. |
| June 1991 | No dividend payment for the 76th year (ended in March 1991) resolved (first since the year ended in March 1951). |
| June 1999 | Resumption of dividend payment (¥3 per share a year) for the 84th year (ended in March 1999) resolved. |
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| January 2001 | NISSUI acquired 50% of shares of Sealord, a fishery company in New Zealand. |
| October 2001 | NISSUI acquired "Gorton's" and "Blue Water," pre-cooked frozen seafood brands for household use in North America. |
| March 2002 | NISSUI acquired 25% of shares of Alaska Ocean Seafood. |
| March 2003 | "IMARK," NISSUI's EPA-based FOSHU, approved for commercialization (put on sale in April 2004). |
| January 2004 | Kurose Suisan, an aquaculture company specializing in Japanese yellowtail, founded. |
| February 2004 | NAL Peru, a procurement company specializing in fish meal and fish oil, founded in Lima, Peru. |
| October 2004 | Europacifico, a marketer of marine products, founded in Vigo, Spain. |
| July 2005 | NISSUI acquired King & Price Seafood, a U.S. company of pre-cooked frozen seafood for business use. |
| October 2005 | New plant completed at Shandong Sanfod Nissui in Qingdao, China. |
| March 2006 | NISSUI began capital and business cooperation with Kyowa Suisan, a Japanese fishery company. |
| April 2006 | NISSUI announced the acquisition of three marketers of marine products: Nordic Seafood in Denmark, F.W. Bryce in the U.S. and Nordsee in Brazil. |
| October 2006 | Construction of Nissui Kashima Plant commenced. |
| April 2007 | Nissui Logistics Corporation founded. |
| October 2007 | NISSUI acuired shares of Cité Marine S.A.S., a processed Seafood Company in France. |
| October 2007 | NISSUI made capital investments in domestic processed company, Sasaya Shoten Co., Ltd., Kaneko Shokuhin Co., Ltd., and Kunihiro Inc., and Tai Mei Food Industrial Corp. (Taiwan) in overseas. |
| October 2007 | DOSA. was established in Chile in order to administrating, marketing, and distributing for group fishery companies in Chile. |
| November 2007 | Kurose Suisan Co., Ltd. was certified from Miyazaki Prefecture as an "EU export-worthy marine seafood processing facility." |
| April 2008 | Qingdao Nissui Food Research and Development founded. |
| June 2008 | NISSUI acquired 25% of shares of Glacier Fish Company. |
| October 2008 | Construction of the Nissui Kashima
Plant completed. Construction of the frozen food plant completed at Hachikan Co., Ltd. Headquarters. Kyowa Suisan Co., Ltd. becomes consolidated subsidiary. |
| December 2008 | Hokkaido Fine Chemicals Co., Ltd. founded |
| March 2009 | TN Fine Chemicals Co.,Ltd. founded. |
| November 2009 | NISSUI commenced culturing arachidonic-acid-producing filamentous fungi in large tanks in the bio-production field. |
| December 2009 | Hakata Marukita Suisan Co., Ltd. founded (business transferred from Hakata Marukita Co., Ltd. in February 2010). |
| February 2010 | NISSUI's stake in Tokyo Kitaichi Co., Ltd. increased. |
| May 2010 | NISSUI made capital investments in Netuno International S.A., a tilapia and shrimp farming, and marine products production and sales company (Brazil). |
| July 2010 | NISSUI acquired shares of Delmar. |
| August 2010 | Nordic Seafood A/S becomes consolidated subsidiary. |
| April 2011 | Construction of the Tokyo Innovation Center. |
| May 2011 | Publishing "A History of Hundred Years of Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd." "Nippon Suisan Gyofu (Scientific Illustrations of Food Fish of the World)" |
| August 2011 | Opening The Nissui Pioneer Exhibition |
