The birth of the Japan Society of Ultrasonics in Medicine can be traced back to the holding of a symposium on "recent medical applications of ultrasonic waves" as part of a Kansai-section Joint Convention of Institutes of Electrical Engineering in Kyoto in October of 1961. At this time, an informal gathering of researchers who sought to engage in academic study on the medical and biological applications of ultrasonic waves and to contribute to the advancement of academics and welfare by exchanging knowledge on this topic became the "Medical Research Society on Ultrasonics" with 27 members.
The society changed its name to "The Japan Society of Ultrasonics in Medicine" at its second general assembly in June 1965. It enacted byelaws at a conference held in November of the same year and enhanced its organizational systems in successive steps.
The Japan Society of Ultrasonics in Medicine was approved as an incorporated body by the Ministry of Education, Science Sports and Culture in June of 1987, and it became a member of the Japanese Association of Medical Sciences in the same year. On April 1, being approved by the cabinet office, it moved to a general incorporated association. Today, the society has more than 14,000 members.
The society engages in a broad range of activities in ultrasonic medicine and related fields. It contributes to the advancement of academics through the study of theory and technologies related to ultrasonic medicine, organizes academic gatherings and lecture meetings, publishes two academic journals (one is written in Japanese and the other is written in English), and communicates and cooperates with concerned academic societies in Japan and abroad.