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The Japan Tobacco Inc. (日本たばこ産業株式会社, Nihon Tabako Sangyō kabushiki gaisha) (JT) is a Japanese diversified tobacco company.It was established in 1985 as a tokushu gaisha (特殊会社, lit. "special company") that inherited the right to monopolize and manufacture cigarettes from the Japan Tobacco and Salt Public Corporation and required the government to hold at least 50% ...
The brand has been known by the alias of "Bat" for a long time. After enforcement of the tobacco monopoly system in Japan, in September 1906 (Meiji 39), it was placed on the market by the then-Monopoly Bureau, the Ministry of Finance (the forerunner of "Japan Tobacco and Salt Public Corporation"). In the present cigarette market, Golden Bat is ...
The union was founded in 1949, and was a founding affiliate of the General Council of Trade Unions of Japan. [1] By 1967, it had 39,426 members. [2] In 1985, the tobacco industry was privatised, leading the tobacco section of the union to split away as the Japan Tobacco and Allied Workers' Union. The union dissolved in 1987. [1] [3]
As governor-general, Chen Yi took over and sustained the Japanese system of state monopolies in tobacco, sugar, camphor, tea, paper, chemicals, petroleum refining, mining, and cement, the same way the Nationalists treated people in other former Japanese-controlled areas (earning Chen Yi the nickname "robber" (劫收)). [16]
Imperial tobacco was made from special leaves of tobacco, while the Special tobacco for noblemen and gifts was made from the finest Fuji leaf; these were also produced with the utmost care manually. Emperor Taishō was a smoker and smoked his exclusively produced cigarettes, while Emperor Shōwa did not; the production of Imperial tobacco ...
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The government divided the national-level corporations into several categories. The first included the main public service and monopoly corporations: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, Japanese National Railways, and Japan Tobacco and Salt Public Corporation (now Japan Tobacco). However, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone ...
The variant made by the Japan Monopoly Authority uses native Higashiyama leaves from the Japanese city of Ichinoseki of the Iwate Prefecture, which is different from the current Virginia blend. Peace's logo was designed by Raymond Loewy, an U.S. industrial designer who also worked on the pack design of Lucky Strike, in April 1952.