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...NOMA OF JAPAN?Seiji Noma?Vanguard ($3.75). Dai Nippon Yubenkai Kodansha, founded in 1910, is the leading publishing house of Japan. Its nine magazines comprise some 70% of the total Nipponese output. In book publishing it is the birthplace of mass production in Japan with best sellers passing the million mark. Founder Seiji Noma has been compared to Newnes, Northcliffe, Hearst, Curtis. Since 1930 he has been head of the Tokyo Hochi Shimbun ("Intelligence Newspaper"), oldest and one of the most influential Japanese dailies. This book is his autobiography, written in English by his friend, Shunkichi Akimoto. Unusually frank...
Born in 1878 when the new Japan was in its infancy, Seiji Noma, whose father had been of the samurai, was rooted in the feudal past. His family was poor but proud. At school he was an idle, mischief-making but lusty youth, excelling in oratory and fencing. Despite early pride and poverty, and the vein of moralizing that runs through his narrative, Noma is no Horatio Alger hero, dislikes being called a self-made man. Sent to the Luchu Islands as a Government teacher, he displayed marked talents for conviviality, enjoyed wining, dining and the entertainment of geisha girls...
Here I express my heartfelt thankfulness for your kind introduction about Mr. Seiji Noma, the president of the Hochi Shimbun and Magazine King, in your publication of TIME...
Under the separate cover I send you a copy of Seiji Noma. A sketch of his life, character and enterprises. I wish you will accept with my best compliment, and believe me, most sincere of yours...
...versatile tycoon, "King" Noma makes his magazines sell many a bottle of his "Durikono," health beverage, and "Pamile," eye lotion...