Kyota Sugimoto

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Kyota Sugimoto (杉本 京太 Sugimoto Kyōta, September 20, 1882December 26, 1972) was a Japanese inventor who developed the first practical Japanese typewriter. He received the Blue Ribbon Award and the Small Asahi Ribbon. There are two different alphabets for the Japanese. One of them is kanji. It is made up of thousands of characters. Kyota Sugimoto used 2,400 of them and arranged them by classification.

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