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

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