Nihon Kotsu as the "Prince of Taxis." The company was founded as a sole proprietorship in 1928 and reorganized as a stock company in December 1945. It began as a limousine operator and expanded to taxi service in 1940. NK operates the most popular taxi hailing mobile application in Japan, Japan Taxi. Toyota invested 500 million yen in the app in 2017, followed by a second 7.5 billion investment in 2018. Tokyo Musen, a major rival of Nihon Kotsu in the Tokyo area, joined the app later that year in an effort to counterbalance foreign rivals such as Uber and Didi Chuxing.
Taxi (pinball) least 200 sample games were shipped with 'Marilyn' before the change was made. Mark Ritchie explained also in the book "The Pinball Compendium 1982 to Present", that the name 'Lola' was taken from the 1970s song "Lola" about a transvestite, that fits also to her muscular arms on the backglass. "Get ready for the taxi everyone's going to be lining up for!" "The one taxi Lola, Gorbie, Santa, Dracula... and operators everywhere are hailing!" "The one taxi Marilyn, Gorbie, Santa, Dracula... and operators everywhere are hailing!" "Taxi" was formerly available simulated in "The Pinball Arcade" on any platform until WMS