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1900 |
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First Automatic Telephones (Public Telephone) Appeared at Shinbashi and Ueno Stations |
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A box-type automatic telephone (public telephone) was installed at the foot of Kyobashi bridge |
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1903 |
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Debut of Common-Battery Public Telephone |
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1911 |
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At the close of the Meiji Era, Red Hexagonal Phone Booths Appear |
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1925 |
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The "automatic telephone" renamed the "public telephone" |
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1927 |
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Tokyo Metropolitan Public Telephone Booths Change from Hexagonal Red Design to Light-Gray Square Style |
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1945 |
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The 1945 Public Phone Box: The Prefabricated Barracks Style |
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1947 |
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Public Phones at Shimbashi Station Accept Currency |
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Post-war model public telephone box appears |
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1951 |
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A Simplified Public Telephone |
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1952 |
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Consigned Public Telephones |
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1953 |
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Simplified Phone and Consignment Phones Become "The Red Phone" |
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Coin-Operated Public Telephones |
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1954 |
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"Red Cap" Style Public Phone Boxes Appear |
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1955 |
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No. 5 Automatic Desktop Public Telephone Set |
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1957 |
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Kinki Railways Inaugurate Public Telephone Service on Express Trains |
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1960 |
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The Pink Telephone (Special Simplified Public Telephone Set) |
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1965 |
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Public telephone service from railway carriages on the Tokaido Shinkansen introduced |
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1966 |
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Large Size Red Public Telephone Set Introduced |
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1968 |
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The Large Blue Public Telephone |
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1969 |
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Four-Sided Glass Public Phone Booths |
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Local Public Calls Cut Off after 3 Minutes |
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1971 |
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New Type "Red Phone" Introduced |
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1972 |
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Large Scale Pink Phones |
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100 Yen Public Phones |
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1973 |
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New green telephone appears |
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1975 |
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Push-Button Type 100-Yen Public Telephones |
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1982 |
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Card Operated Public Telephones Introduced. First Card Phone Placed in Tokyo's Sukiyabashi Park |
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1985 |
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The 100 Yen Pink Telephone |
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1986 |
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Public In-Flight Telephone Service Begins |
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1988 |
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Auto-Dialing Phone Cards Introduced |
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1989 |
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Card-Style Pink Telephones |
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1990 |
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Digital Public Phones |
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1991 |
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New Type Digital Public Telephone Set |
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1992 |
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3,000 and 5,000-Yen Phone Cards Go Off Market |
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1993 |
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Public Telephone Calling Rates Revised |
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