TV Shizuoka
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JOQH-DTV, also known as TV Shizuoka, is a television station headquartered in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The station, which began broadcasting on December 24, 1968, is an affiliate of Fuji News Netwo
Headquarters in Suruga-ku, Shizuoka
Kenjiro Takayanagi
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Kenjiro Takayanagi was a Japanese engineer and a pioneer in the development of television and video tape recorders. Although he failed to gain much recognition in the West, he built the world's first
TV Shizuoka
…Japan. The station, which began broadcasting on December 24, 1968, is an affiliate of Fuji News Network and Fuji Network System. On February 25, 1926, Kenjiro Takayanagi of Hamamatsu Technical School in Shizuoka Prefecture successfully displayed the text "(イ)" on a television screen. It was one of the world's earliest…
Kenjirō Takayanagi in 1953
A recreation of Takayanagi's pioneering experiment, on display at the NHK Broadcasting Museum in Atagoyama, Tokyo