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In Japanese inventor Kyota Sugimoto Offsite Link received a Japanese patent (No....
The Japanese typewriter was invented in by Kyota Sugimoto and includes the Kanji characters most commonly used in business and government documents.
Kyota Sugimoto Edit Profile
杉本 京太
inventor
Kyota Sugimoto was a Japanese inventor who developed the first practical Japanese typewriter.
Background
Kyota Sugimoto was born in Okayama prefecture in 1882.
Education
Because of his desire to become a specialist in communication technology, he entered the Training Institute for Communication Technology in Osaka, and completed his studies at the training institute in 1900.
Career
Out of the thousands of kanji characters, Kyota"s typewriter used 2,400 of them.
At that time, typewriters were already commonly used in Europe and America, but no practical type of typewriter had been developed yet for the Japanese language, which would make it possible to write Japanese (Kanji) without using a pen.
Because a typewriter which could be used to type Japanese would thus be very useful if it could be used with the large amount of Japanese characters (unlike the 25-30 or so