April:

Casio Electronic Devices Co., Ltd., established as a device sales company

August:

Kochi Casio Co., Ltd, in Nankoku City, Kochi establiashed

March:

Celviano digital piano established

April:

Release of high-speed page printer (Page Presto)

October:

Singapore office opens

November:

Name Land (KL-1000) label writer released

February:

Release of wristwatch type blood-pressure monitor (BP-100)

March:

AZ-8 and SL-300LH arithmetic calculators for elementary school students released

April:

Casio Information Systems Co., Ltd. established

July:

Release of cigarette-packet-sized light-weight micro LCD TV (CV-1)

November:

Release of digital diary for kids (JD-300)

April:

New Casio European Headquarters established in London

October:

Release of PDA (personal digital assistant) in North America (Z-7000)

December:

Office opened in Moscow, Russia

April:

TFT LCD factory in Kochi begins operations

July:

Release of card-size Japanese-English, English-Japanese digital dictionary (DI-2000)

September:

Release of electronic keyboard with key lighting system

November:

Release of LCD projection TV (FV-600)

December:

Baby-G shock resistant watch for women released

March:

Establishment of two joint-venture production and sales companies in Guangdong China: Casio Electronics (Zhuhai) Co., Ltd., for electronic keyboards, and Casio Electronics (Zhongshan) Co., Ltd., for scientific calculators and digital diaries.

QV-10 digital camera with LCD monitor released

The MR-1, a radio that recieves and displays text, released

Release of 3-color display graphing calculator (CFX-9800G)

June:

Release of the FKT-100L radio-controlled watch

Release of radio-controlled watch (FTK-100)

July:

PH-100 series PHS mobile phone released

November:

Establishment of joint venture company for designing timepieces and procuring timepiece parts, Casio Electronics (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., in Shenzhen, China

January:

Establishment of joint venture production and sales company for pagers, Casio Bharti Mobile Communications Ltd. (now Casio India Co., LimitedUjin New Delhi, India

June:

Radio-controlled clock (DQD-10) released

July:

Release of high-speed/low-running-cost color page printer for A3 size paper (N4)

November:

CASSIOPEIA handheld PC released in North America

July:

Release of the CASSIOPEIA handheld PC in Japan (Japanese version)

October:

Service Division spun off to establish Casio Techno Co., Ltd.

Fukuoka Casio Co., Ltd., integrated and reorganized with the Fukuoka branch office and its subsidiary locations to create Kyushu Casio Co., Ltd.

January:

Head office moved to Hatsudai, Shibuya-ku (Tokyo)

April:

Release of megapixel digital camera (QV-5000SX)

June:

Corporate Officer System implemented

Release of PC-compatible watch, PC-UNITE

September:

Development and launch of high-security encryption system, MDSR (Multi Dimensional Space Rotation)

November:

Release of mini laptop PC, CASSIOPEIA FIVA (MPC-101), with Windows98

March:

Release of Japanese version color palm PC, CASSIOPEIA (E-500)

June:

Corporate Officer System implemented

Establishment of Casio Soft Co., Ltd.

SATELLITE NAVI, the world's first GPS watch, released

July:

ERP system introduced company-wide

September:

SCM system begins implementation