Japanese typewriter
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The first practical Script error: No such module "Nihongo". was invented by Kyota Sugimoto in 1915. Out of the thousands of kanji characters, Kyota's original typewriter used 2,400 of them.[1] He obtained the patent rights to the typewriter that he invented in 1929.[2] Sugimoto's typewriter met its competition when the Oriental Typewriter was invented by Shimada Minokichi.[3] The Otani Japanese Typewriter Company and Toshiba also released their own typewriters later.[3]
The Japanese typewriter was bulky and laborious to use. Unlike the English-language typewriter, which allows the typist to key in text quickly, one needed to locate and then retrieve the desired character from a large matrix of metal characters.[4] For instance, to type a sentence, the typist would need to find and retrieve around 22 symbols from about three different character matrices, making the sentence longer to type than its romanized version.[4] For this reason, typists were required to undergo specialized training, and typing documents was not part of the duties of the ordinary office worker.[4]
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- A blog post about Japanese typewriters (includes pictures). Gatunka, 2009.
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