The House of Nomura: The Rise to Power of the World's Most Powerful Company

by Al Alletzhauser (Author)

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  Paperback
  1990

  $5.04

  An account of the founding of a financial empire by Tokushichi Nomura in the years before World War I. The House of Nomura was ruined after World War II but a small part of it has since risen again and become one of the most powerful companies in the world - Nomura Securities. The author describes the stranglehold Nomura has on Japan's financial markets and using interviews with the Nomura family, he recreates the lifestyles of the family in pre-war Japan.