Background
Sojuro Nomura (Hattori) was born in 1857 in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. He had original family name: Hattori.
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Education
Sojuro Nomura studied at the private school of Shozo Motoki, a pioneer of the modern printing industry, and then at the University Preparatory School of the Bookkeeping School in Tokyo.
Career
From 1879 to 1889 Sojuro Nomura served in the Bank Bureau, Finance Ministry. He joined Motoki's type manufacturing plant in Tsukiji, Tokyo. Then Sojuro Nomura became its manager and then its president, succeeding Taizo Nomura in 1907. He made it Japan's largest and best type printing company, through adoption of many improvements in type manufacturing and printing. He adopted the Western point system for Japanese types, thereby making a new epoch in printing in Japan.
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1879 - 1889