Its buildings were designed by the architecture firm of Nikken Sekkei Ltd. and completed in 1985.

[1] The last IBM-related organizations left Yamato around September 2012, and the facility is no longer associated with IBM.

Its address is 1623-14, Shimo-tsuruma, Yamato City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

In the 1960s, IBM started small-scale development activities in Japan, using RPQ procedure at its Special Engineering department.

In 1972, IBM Japan Development Laboratory (JDL) was established in Tokyo.