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日本海ケーブル開通 << 1969年(昭和44年) 6月25日 >> 2-4-244

Opening of Japan Sea Cable Issued on June 25, 1969 (Showa 44)

Opening of Japan Sea Cable Issued on June 25, 1969 (Showa 44) The outline history of submarine cables in Japan is as follows: TPC-1 (Trans Pacific Cable, Kanagawa-Guam-Hawaii) was opened in 1964, and 128 telephone lines were laid. JASC (Niigata-Nakhodka) was laid in 1969. Optical fiber was used for the first time in TPC-3 (1989, capacity: 560 Mbps), and played an important role as a backbone including communication between Japan and the United States and relay between the Asian region and Europe and the United States.The stamp was issued in commemoration of the opening of the Sea of Japan submarine cable in 1969, and designed for the submarine cable facility ship and the Sea of Japan.