mercedo's Journal: Hills Brothers

Roppongi Hills in Tokyo -where we can find many young internet tycoons, one of them Hiroshi Mikitani, chairperson of Rakuten, recently bought 15.46% of shares of Tokyo Broadcasting System, one of the major 5 TV networks in Japan. This broadcasting company is a parent company of Mariners -one of the professional baseball teams.

Hills brothers- Hiroshi Mikitani -Rakuten and Takafumi Horie -Livedoor, both live in the same supper condominium -Roppongi Hills, they are not only acquired the Internet but try to acquire the media -especially TV companies. Horie's attempts to gaina control over FUJI-SANKEI TV network were failed. But now another IT tycoon is in a bid to gain the TV. By the way Rakuten already have had a proffessional baseball team, and needless to say SoftBank - affiliate of Yahoo! owns the baseball team here in Yahoo! City.

YUSEN -another IT company expressed their wishes to buy Marines. The president of USEN also lives in Roppongi Hills.

Those who rule the Internet have been successfully gaining the control of the trunk of this country.

Links as to the takeover bit

Somehow I knew

[Marxist Hacker 42]

You couldn't possbly be talking about WWII era Coffee rationing [si.edu]. (I was originally going to point to the corporate website, but it seems this is one company that does not have one. What's up with THAT?!?!?!?

Re:Somehow I knew

[mercedo]

I sometimes make coffee on my own -I don't have wife to make me coffee, I've got two favorites, one is MJB (founded in 1881) and the other is Hills Bros(1900).

All day long our TV has been airing this news, and that reminds me one of my favorite coffees. Rationings in the US? Unbelievable!

Recent surge by Hills Brothers are about to overcome the established authorities as if it were Original Hills Brothers that put an end to roasting shops and coffee mills.

Re:Somehow I knew

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Back during WWII- it was dangerous to get shipments from Hawaii, due to your people's submarines, and trade with S. America wasn't yet at the present state of affairs. No place else in the United States has the climate for growing coffee, though in the late 1990s it became possible to grow coffee hydroponically. So for the duration of the war, coffee, like so many other items, was rationed.

Sometimes I think it would be a good idea to use rationing again today- given the current mess with the middle east,

Re:Somehow I knew

[mercedo]

I think one wind power plant is located off the coast of Saga prefecture and a wave power plant is located off the coast of Maizuru, Kyoto prefecture. Both are very small and they are not yet really a practical use, I mean still in an experimental stage.

I encountered hundreds of windmills that were generating electricity in the vast field of New Mexico, that landscape was just amazing.

Re:Somehow I knew

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Wave power seems to be an obvious solution for Japan- especially with the new vertical generation 100kw bouys, 500-600 of them could power Tokyo.