Kyota Sugimoto
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was a Japanese
Japanese people
The are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...

 inventor who developed the first practical Japanese typewriter
Japanese typewriter
The first Japanese typewriter was invented by Kyota Sugimoto in 1929.- External links :*...

. He received the Blue Ribbon Award
Blue Ribbon Awards
The are film-specific prizes awarded solely by movie critics and writers in Tokyo, Japan.The awards were established in 1950 by which is composed of film correspondents from seven Tokyo-based sports newspapers...

 and the Small Asahi Ribbon. Out of the thousands of kanji
Kanji
Kanji are the adopted logographic Chinese characters hanzi that are used in the modern Japanese writing system along with hiragana , katakana , Indo Arabic numerals, and the occasional use of the Latin alphabet...

characters, Kyota's typewriter used 2,400 of them.

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