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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. For instance, to type a sentence, the typist would need
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used 2,400 of them. He obtained the patent rights to the typewriter that he invented in 1929. Sugimoto's typewriter met its competition when the Oriental Typewriter was invented by Shimada Minokichi. The Otani Japanese Typewriter Company and
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version. For this reason, typists were required to undergo specialized training, and typing documents was not part of the duties of the ordinary office worker.
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to find and retrieve around 22 symbols from about three different character matrices, making the sentence longer to type than its
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Word-Processing Technology in Japan: Kanji and the Keyboard
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Japanese
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Kyota Sugimoto
kanji
typewriter
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romanized
Chinese typewriter
Japanese input method
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9781848823709
"Kyota Sugimoto (Japanese Typewriter)"


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9780262036368



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