Book review: “The House of Nomura”
The Rise to Power of the World's Most Powerful Company
After the book on Vivendi, another gem in the history of global financial markets, and even older as it’s from 1990.
Written by a Westerner who was granted access to the family papers of the Nomura dynasty, the story begins in the nineteenth century with Tokushichi Nomura I, the bastard son of a noble family living in rural Japan, and ends with insider …