Determined to make their offices as efficient as those of the West, the Japanese invented a typewriter for their own complex writing system.
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The first one, appropriately named Model No. 1, appeared in 1915. Some minor improvements aside, the original design remained unchanged for several decades.
Video of a Japanese typewriter in action.
Via del.icio.us.