History of science and technology in Japan at the Computer Technique Group, Japan, in 1967. The first electronic printer was the EP-101, invented by Japanese company Epson and released in 1968. The world's first inkjet printer was Casio's Typuter, released in 1971. Thermal transfer printing was invented by SATO corporation, a Japanese company. They produced the world's first thermal transfer label printer, SATO M-2311, in 1981. The concept of a single-chip microprocessor CPU (central processing unit) was conceived in a 1968 meeting in Japan between Sharp engineer Tadashi Sasaki and an unnamed female software engineering researcher from Nara Women's College. He discussed the concept at a brainstorming
Cloudy Cloud Calculator Cloudy Cloud Calculator Cloudy Cloud Calculator is the third studio album by Japanese musician Takako Minekawa, released on December 10, 1997. It was released by Polystar in Japan and by Emperor Norton Records in the United States. Minekawa played almost every instrument on the album and produced, arranged, wrote, and sang nearly all its songs. Minekawa toured in the United States to support the album. The album "Ximer", released in 1998, featured remixes of "Cloudy Cloud Calculator" by artists including Cornelius, Markus Popp, Sukia, and Michiko Endo (Citrus). Heather Phares of AllMusic described "Cloudy Cloud Calculator" as one of Minekawa's