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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 All Monopoly Corporation Workers' Union (Zensenbai) was a trade union representing workers in the tobacco and salt industries in Japan. 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]
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.
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 ...
Smokers as a percentage of the population for Japan as compared with the United States, the Netherlands, Norway, and Finland. 1980–2019. Until 1985, the tobacco industry was a government-run monopoly; the government of Japan is still involved in the industry through the Ministry of Finance, which after a sell-off in March 2013, owns one-third of Japan Tobacco's outstanding stock, and the ...
In the 1980s, Japan Tobacco created various poster advertisements in which actor Tatsuya Fuji appeared. "I'm me, this tastes like" was a slogan he used in those adverts. [6] [7] In the 1990s, some television advertisements were also made to promote Caster cigarettes. [8] [9] Some old telephone cards also had Caster advertisements on them. [10] [11]
JTI - Japan Tobacco International is the international tobacco division of Japan Tobacco (Global Fortune 500), [3] one of the three largest international Big Tobacco product manufacturers. The holding company is JT International SA and headquartered in Tokyo , Japan ; Geneva , Switzerland ; and Raleigh, North Carolina .