Began to produce its first electric rice cookers. In the late 1920s to mid-period kidney show that the late 1940's Mitsubishi Electric has produced a rice cooker pot and heat coils inside. This is the form closest to the rice cooker. But it's not very comfortable. The automated system. The production company, Matsushita, and Sony released the rice cooker. But without success.
During World War 2 that women workers in the war with Japan. Convenient and saves time in the rice cooker is indispensable in the December 10, 1956 Toshiba introduced an automatic rice cooker released the very successful 700. Toshiba began production of the rice cooker to 200,000 in just one month and four years later, the rice cooker has become ubiquitous, almost half the country. Toshiba rice cooker takes only 20 minutes, a second outer layer for water. In the quantities of rice. This format is up to 9 years to the development of a modern rice cooker.