History of science and technology in Japan the idea to Kihara. The Walkman was commercially released in 1979. Kei cars are a category of small automobiles invented in Japan, including passenger cars, vans, and pickup trucks. They are designed to exploit local tax and insurance relaxations, and in more rural areas are exempted from the requirement to certify that adequate parking is available for the vehicle. The world's first all-electric compact calculator was the Casio Computer Company's Model 14-A, released in 1957. The first electronic desktop calculator with on-board memory was the Casio 001, released in 1965. In 1967, Casio released the AL-1000, the world's first programmable
Sumlock ANITA calculator and took on Kitz as the leader of a project to develop an electronic version of the company's mechanical calculators. To help confidentiality the project was given the code-name ANITA. Since the company had production lines capable of manufacturing precision mechanical parts by the thousand, the first experimental models were mechanical and electronic hybrids. However, these proved impractical and a purely electronic design was pursued. Being the first in the field there were several major technical areas that required considerable development: However, the main constraint was to be the cost of the calculator. The cheapest electronic computer then cost approximately