1876		Graham Bell Invents the Telephone
	1878		First Telephone of Domestic Production
	1890		Telephone Service Between Tokyo and Yokohama Started (Founding of Telephone in Japan)
			Gower-Bell Telephone Used (First Telephone for Practical Use in Japan)
	1896		Delville Wall Telephone Replaces Gower-Bell Telephone
	1897		Delville Magnetic Ko-Type Desk Telephone
	1899		Japan's first long distance telephone service (Tokyo - Osaka)
			Debut of Solid Back Magnetic Wall Telephone
	1900		Submarine Cables for Long Distance Calls Laid
	1903		Debut of Gooseneck Common-Battery Wall Telephone
	1905		Long distance phone line opened between Tokyo and Sasebo (approx. 1,550km)
	1909		Debut of No.2 Common-Battery Wall Telephone
	1923		The Great Kanto Earthquake Destroys Telephone Facilities in the Kanto Region
	1926		Aomori - Hakodate line opened and long distance services between Honshu and Hokkaido introduced
	1927		No. 2 Automatic Desktop Telephone Set Introduced
	1928		Japan's First Long-Distance Charged Cable Service Begins (between Tokyo and Kobe)
	1933		No. 3 Desktop Telephone Set Completed
	1950		No. 4 Desktop Telephone Set is Developed, Mass Production Begins
	1953		The No. 23 Wall Mounted Automatic Telephone Set
	1954		First Tokyo-Nagoya-Osaka Microwave Transmission
	1962		The Model 600 Telephone Set
	1968		Ten Million Telephone Subscribers Nationwide
	1969		Push Button Phones
	1972		The charging structure for local calls was reviewed and time-based (per 3 minutes) charging adopted (wide area time-based system)
	1976		Unit of Charge for Dialed Calls Changes from 7 Yen to 10 Yen
	1978		Subscriber telephone backlog eliminated
	1979		Japan's Telephones Become 100% Automatic
	1980		Night-time call discount hours extended and a late night discount introduced
	1983		The Tokyo - Chichijima (Ogasawara) satellite link completes the installation of direct dialing for the entire country
	1985		The Japan end-to-end optical fiber cable transmission line was completed (Asahikawa - Kagoshima)
			User-Installed Main Telephones Introduced (Terminal Equipment Liberalization)
			Automatic Answering Telephone "Response"
	1986		Saturday Calling Rates Reduced
	1987		Clover Phone
	1988		Rates Revised for Direct-Dialed Calls (Daytime Rates for Inter-Area Calls over 320km Reduced From 10 Yen per 4.5 Seconds to 10 Yen per 5 Seconds)
			INS Net64 Service Begins in Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka
			Howdy Cordless Phone "Passe"
	1992		Long Distance Calling Charges Reduced
	1993		Ultra High-Speed (150Mb/s) Leased Line Service Introduced
			Medium and Long-Distance Rates Reduced
	1995		Revision of Base Rates and Directory Assistance Charges
	1995		Digital Cordless Phone PIET S100-S Set

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