The public telephone service in Tokyo slowly started to recover in 1947 (Showa 22) in the midst of the post-war reconstruction when everybody was in extreme poverty. In addition to the Tokyo traffic office's service boxes installed at major streetcar intersections (which were a combined "streetcar ticket counter, accident report office, mailbox, public telephone and advertising pillar") and the telephone boxes which survived the fire, various new public telephone boxes started to appear.

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