{"id":3057,"date":"2015-11-22T14:40:05","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T14:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/?p=3057"},"modified":"2015-11-22T15:42:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T15:42:24","slug":"a-1960s-japanese-telephone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/a-1960s-japanese-telephone\/","title":{"rendered":"A 1960s Japanese Telephone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up what I assume is a 1960s era phone in Akihabara a couple of weeks ago. It uses parts from a varietty of Japanese manufacturers including what appears to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riken.co.jp\/english\/\">Riken corp.<\/a> the design comes from a time when manufacturing in Japan must have just been picking up speed after the second world war.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a model 600A phone, and there&#8217;s a great Japanese site detailing this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.jp\/web_royalblue\/retro\/teleephone\/zukan\/600\/600.html\">model and its variations<\/a>. By best guess is that these phones would have been installed by NTT directly.<\/p>\n<p>I also have a British phone from the same era. It was interesting to compare the construction, shown below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/a-1960s-japanese-telephone\/img_0029\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3058\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3058\" src=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0029.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0029\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/a-1960s-japanese-telephone\/img_0030\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3059\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3059\" src=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0030.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0030\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=3091\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3060\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3091 \" src=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_00311.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"698\" height=\"931\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/a-1960s-japanese-telephone\/img_0032\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3061\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3061\" src=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0032.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0032\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/a-1960s-japanese-telephone\/img_0039\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3068\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3068\" src=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0039.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0039\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A British telephone from a similar era for comparison:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=3089\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3062\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3089 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_00332.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2448\" height=\"3264\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/a-1960s-japanese-telephone\/img_0034\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3063\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3063\" src=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0034.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0034\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=3090\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3064\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3090 \" src=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_00333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"719\" height=\"958\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Handsets, top British, bottom Japanese.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/a-1960s-japanese-telephone\/img_0036\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3065\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3065\" src=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0036.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0036\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/a-1960s-japanese-telephone\/img_0038\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3067\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3067\" src=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0038.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0038\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DxzcmOc3Mk8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up what I assume is a 1960s era phone in Akihabara a couple of weeks ago. It uses parts from a varietty of Japanese manufacturers including what appears to be Riken corp. the design comes from a time when manufacturing in Japan must have just been picking up speed after the second world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1RRoU-Nj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3057"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3098,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions\/3098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}