1890
  • Subscriber List Published (First Telephone Directory in Japan)
    1898
  • Telephone Directory Arranged in Order of Japanese Syllabary (I-RO-HA order). Store Names, etc. Allowed.
    1925
  • Telephone Books Use Horizontal Script
    1931
  • Placing of advertisements in the telephone directory starts
    1951
  • Classified telephone directory published
    1959
  • 1983
  • The "Town Pages" nickname was chosen for the classified telephone directory and the "Hello Pages" nickname for the "gojyuon" (Japanese equivalent of alphabetic ordering) based telephone directory.
    1985
  • Various New Pages first published
    1986
  • CD Town Pages developed
    1988
  • New Town Pages published with improved layout and business categories.

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