A hot toddy, also known as hot whiskey in Ireland, is typically a mixed drink made of liquor and water with honey (or, in some recipes, sugar), herbs (such as tea) and spices, and served hot.
Suntory was started by ShinjirÅ Torii (鳥井 信治郎, Torii ShinjirÅ), who first opened his store Torii ShÅten (鳥井商店) in Osaka on February 1, 1899, to sell imported wines.The store became the Kotobukiya company in 1921 to further expand its business and in 1923, Torii built Japan’s first malt whisky distillery Yamazaki Distillery. Production began in December 1924 and five years later Suntory Whisky Shirofuda (White Label), the first single malt whisky made in Japan, was sold.
Ronald Levin Carter (born May 4, 1937) is an American jazz double bassist. His appearances on 2,221 recording sessions make him the most-recorded jazz bassist in history.
The original Walkman, released in 1979, was a portable cassette player that changed listening habits by allowing people to listen to music on the move. It was devised by Sony cofounder Masaru Ibuka, who felt Sony’s existing portable player was too unwieldy and expensive. The metal-cased blue-and-silver Walkman TPS-L2, the world’s first low-cost portable stereo, went on sale in Japan on July 1, 1979, and was sold for around Â¥39,433.58 (or $150.00), or Â¥57,109.02 (or $498.66) adjusted for inflation. Though Sony predicted it would sell about 5,000 units a month, it sold more than 50,000 in the first two months.
The Walkman Effect refers to the way music listened to via headphones allows the user to gain more control over their environment. When Sony released the first Walkmans, they featured two headphone jacks and a “hotline” switch. When pressed, this button activated a microphone and lowered the volume to enable those listening to have a conversation without removing their headphones.
Masaru Ibuka (井深 大 Ibuka Masaru; 11 April 1908 – 19 December 1997) was a Japanese electronics industrialist and co-founder of Sony. In 1946, a fellow wartime researcher, Akio Morita, saw a newspaper article about Ibuka’s new venture and after some correspondence, chose to join him in Tokyo. With funding from Morita’s father, they co-founded Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation, which became known as Sony Corporation in 1958.
The Compact Cassette, Compact Audio Cassette or Musicassette (MC), also commonly called the cassette tape or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback. It was developed by Philips in Hasselt, Belgium, and released in 1962.[
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert.
Broadly speaking the style of Japanese whisky is more similar to that of Scotch whisky than other major styles of whisky.
Konishiki remained in the Japan Sumo Association as an elder for a short time under the name of Sanoyama, before branching out as a Japanese entertainer under the name “KONISHIKI” (the capitalization is an effort to reflect the association’s requirement to write his name in the Roman alphabet, after prohibition of spelling it out in Japanese characters after his retirement from sumo).
On April 1, 2009, Suntory became a stockholding company named Suntory Holdings Limited (ã‚µãƒ³ãƒˆãƒªãƒ¼ãƒ›ãƒ¼ãƒ«ãƒ‡ã‚£ãƒ³ã‚°ã‚¹æ ªå¼ä¼šç¤¾) and established Suntory Beverage and Food Limited (サントリー食å“æ ªå¼ä¼šç¤¾), Suntory Products Limited (サントリープãƒãƒ€ã‚¯ãƒ„æ ªå¼ä¼šç¤¾), Suntory Wellness Limited (サントリーウェルãƒã‚¹æ ªå¼ä¼šç¤¾), Suntory Liquors Limited (ã‚µãƒ³ãƒˆãƒªãƒ¼é…’é¡žæ ªå¼ä¼šç¤¾), Suntory Beer & Spirits Limited (サントリービア&ã‚¹ãƒ”ãƒªãƒƒãƒ„æ ªå¼ä¼šç¤¾), Suntory Wine International Limited (ã‚µãƒ³ãƒˆãƒªãƒ¼ãƒ¯ã‚¤ãƒ³ã‚¤ãƒ³ã‚¿ãƒ¼ãƒŠã‚·ãƒ§ãƒŠãƒ«æ ªå¼ä¼šç¤¾), and Suntory Business Expert Limited (サントリービジãƒã‚¹ã‚¨ã‚ã‚¹ãƒ‘ãƒ¼ãƒˆæ ªå¼ä¼šç¤¾).