電でん電でん公こう社しゃ

noun

(former) Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation

Historical company name; refers to the state-owned telecommunications monopoly before privatization into NTT in 1985. Often encountered in discussions of postwar Japanese infrastructure.

• 電でん電でん公こう社しゃは1985年ねんに民みん営えい化かされ、NTTとなった。

  The Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation was privatized in 1985 and became NTT.