First Television Transmission in Japan

December 25, 1926

Kenjiro Takayanagi, who had dreamed of “wireless distance vision,” which could reproduce a scene from far away, succeeded in displaying the Japanese character Katakana (I) on a Braun tube.

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MZTV Museum of Television (at The ZoomerPlex) 64 Jefferson Avenue Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6K 1Y4

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