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1945 |
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The 1945 Public Phone Box: The Prefabricated Barracks Style |
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1946 |
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Facsimile telegraph service introduced |
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1947 |
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Public Phones at Shimbashi Station Accept Currency |
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Post-war model public telephone box appears |
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1950 |
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First telecommunications anniversary |
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No. 4 Desktop Telephone Set is Developed, Mass Production Begins |
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1951 |
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Classified telephone directory published |
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A Simplified Public Telephone |
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1952 |
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Consigned Public Telephones |
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Japan Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (NTT) Founded |
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1953 |
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NHK television broadcasts start |
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Simplified Phone and Consignment Phones Become "The Red Phone" |
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The No. 23 Wall Mounted Automatic Telephone Set |
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Coin-Operated Public Telephones |
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1954 |
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First Tokyo-Nagoya-Osaka Microwave Transmission |
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Telephone Weather '222' Service Begins in Tokyo |
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"Red Cap" Style Public Phone Boxes Appear |
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1955 |
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No. 5 Automatic Desktop Public Telephone Set |
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Correct Time Service (Dial '223') Begins |
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Crossbar switching equipment |
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1956 |
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Subscriber Telex Service Introduced |
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1957 |
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Kinki Railways Inaugurate Public Telephone Service on Express Trains |
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1959 |
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Marine Telephone Service Begins |
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Crossbar automatic exchange introduced for long distance calls |
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The name of the "Personal Telephone Number Directory" was changed to the "Gojyuon" |
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1960 |
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The Pink Telephone (Special Simplified Public Telephone Set) |
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1962 |
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The Model 600 Telephone Set |
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1964 |
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Rural group automatic telephone service started. The beginning of local group telephones |
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Comprehensive Communications Museum Opens in Otemachi, Tokyo |
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1965 |
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Public telephone service from railway carriages on the Tokaido Shinkansen introduced |
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Japan National Railway's "Green Counter" (full introduction of a computer reservation system) |
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Tokyo Weather Service Number Changes from '222' to '177.' |
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1966 |
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Nationwide microwave network for color television completed |
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Large Size Red Public Telephone Set Introduced |
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1968 |
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Ten Million Telephone Subscribers Nationwide |
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Pager Service Begins in Tokyo's 32 Metropolitan Wards |
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Data communication service introduced |
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The Large Blue Public Telephone |
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1969 |
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Push Button Phones |
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Four-Sided Glass Public Phone Booths |
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Local Public Calls Cut Off after 3 Minutes |
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1970 |
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Call Waiting Service Begins |
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1971 |
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New Type "Red Phone" Introduced |
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1972 |
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Miniature Pocket Pagers Go On Sale |
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The charging structure for local calls was reviewed and time-based (per 3 minutes) charging adopted (wide area time-based system) |
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Large Scale Pink Phones |
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100 Yen Public Phones |
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D10 Electronic Switching Equipment |
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1973 |
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Phone Fax Service Begins |
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New green telephone appears |
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1974 |
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National Meteorological Agency Local Weather Data Transmission System (AMEDASU)Service Inaugurated |
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Push-Button Type 100-Yen Public Telephones |
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1976 |
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Unit of Charge for Dialed Calls Changes from 7 Yen to 10 Yen |
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1978 |
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Subscriber telephone backlog eliminated |
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1979 |
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Japan's Telephones Become 100% Automatic |
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Car telephone service introduced |
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DDX-C Service |
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1980 |
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Cordless phones go on sale |
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Night-time call discount hours extended and a late night discount introduced |
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DDX-P service introduced |
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1981 |
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Credit number call service introduced |
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Facsimile communications network (F-Net) started |
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1982 |
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Dual call service introduced for the Pocket Bell (pager) |
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Card Operated Public Telephones Introduced. First Card Phone Placed in Tokyo's Sukiyabashi Park |
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D60 Electronic Switching Equipment |
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1983 |
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The Tokyo - Chichijima (Ogasawara) satellite link completes the installation of direct dialing for the entire country |
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D70 automatic exchange (LS) starts operation |
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The "Town Pages" and "Hello Page" nickname were chosen
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No Ring Data Transmission Service
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1984 |
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INS model experiments start |
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Captain service introduced |
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1985 |
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The 100 Yen Pink Telephone |
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The Japan end-to-end optical fiber cable transmission line was completed (Asahikawa - Kagoshima) |
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