In the article about Blondie, I mentioned the fact that there was very little, if any, information available on the internet concerning this company. I provided some excerpts from an article I had, but why not share it in its entirety here?
As I indicated, this is a sort of seminar that took place over two sessions. The theme is "How to Become Rich" (金儲けセミナー) and the speaker is Tokuzô Uragami (浦上徳三), the president of Blondie. The content was published over 8 pages in the weekly magazine Shûkan Sankei (週刊サンケイ), in the issues of October 13, 1972 and October 20, 1972.
Tokuzô Uragami is clearly a charismatic person. This makes the conference very lively and interesting (in my opinion). However, one must also keep in mind that the president of Blondie is also a smooth talker. Sometimes you have to take what he says with a grain of salt.
For example, he mentions that certain pinball machines can bring in 100,000 yen per month. This is technically possible, but for that to happen, customers would need to insert 10-yen coins into the pinball machine 10,000 times in the month. That amounts to starting a new game every 5 minutes without ever stopping, day and night. The bigger the claim, the more it passes, doesn't it?
The seminar is in two parts. For each part, I will include a photo of the article, then the transcription of the article in Japanese, and finally its translation into English.
I said what I had to say on the Blondie page. I therefore present this article as it is, without commentary.
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