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The number is based on the Manpo-kei pedometer designed in Japan in the 1960s. According to Milton, the Japanese character for 10,000 looks like a person walking, thus the name and the number ...

The ­Manpo-kei hit the market in the 1960s, around the time the Tokyo Olympics boosted public interest in fitness. Its name, which translates to “10,000 steps meter,” was a catchy marketing ...

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It was called a Manpo-Kei. In Japanese, "man" means 10,000, "po" means steps and "kei" means meter. So it was, literally, a 10,000 steps meter. The device was an early pedometer, based on the work ...

It started in 1965 in Tokyo, Japan, where a company released an early step counter, calling it manpo-kei, or 10,000 steps meter. The marketing suggested this number of steps would reduce the risk ...

The device, called manpo-kei, translates to 10,000 step meter. Fifty years later, we’re all still wedded to it. Spence says: “We have taken that number and promoted it as the ultimate marker ...

tells Insider the idea of walking 10,000 steps per day originated in 1965 when a Japanese company developed a pedometer called the "Manpo-kei," which means "10,000 steps meter." "The goal of ...