Telephone directories

	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.