Walkman launched
(February 4, 1980)
Headphone Tribe (February 4, 1980): The stereo cassette player that Sony introduced to the market in July 1979 became a hit, selling 100,000 units by December of the same year. In Tokyo, young people wearing miniature headphones became a conspicuous sight in Harajuku, Ginza, and Kabuki-cho in Shinjuku. The Sony listening room in Ginza, Tokyo, is always full of young "headphone people.
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