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.
Banned in the U.S.A. (song) Banned in the U.S.A. (song) "Banned in the U.S.A." is a song recorded by the American hip hop group 2 Live Crew. It was released in May 1990 as the lead single from its album of the same name. It peaked at number 20 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot-100 chart and is the group's highest-charting song on that chart. It reached number-one on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot Rap Tracks chart. The song is a reference to the decision in a court case that the 2 Live Crew's album "As Nasty As They Wanna Be" was obscene. (The decision would later