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.
The Girl in the Taxi (play) by composer Benjamin Hapgood Burt. Stange's adaptation premiered at the Cort Theatre in Chicago on January 16, 1910. After running in Chicago and Boston, "The Girl in the Taxi" appeared on Broadway at the Astor Theatre on October 24, 1910. It played there for six weeks with 48 performances. The Girl in the Taxi (play) The Girl in the Taxi is a three-act musical comedy written by Stanislaus Stange, with music by Benjamin Hapgood Burt. It is one of several adaptations of "Le Fils à papa", a French comedy by Antony Mars and Maurice Desvallières. Producer Albert H. Woods staged