Kyota Sugimoto

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Kyota Sugimoto (杉本 京太 Sugimoto Kyōta, September 20, 1882 – December 26, 1972) was a Japanese inventor who developed the first practical Japanese typewriter. He received the Blue Ribbon Award and the Small Asahi Ribbon. The Kanji style of Japanese writing was used in his typewriter. Out of the thousands of characters, Kyota used 2,400 of them