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Hoshi Seiyaku KK, Star Pharmaceutical Co., ca.1920-30s, Stock Certificate

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Certificates Start Price:45.00 USD Estimated At:80.00 - 160.00 USD
Hoshi Seiyaku KK, Star Pharmaceutical Co., ca.1920-30s, Stock Certificate
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Japan. 5 Shares = 125 Yen, I/U Stock Certificate, Black on orange and brown border and orange underprint, Printed in Japanese, Uncirculated condition. Hoshi Pharmaceutical Company (Hoshi Seiyaku) in the mid-1920s was the largest drug company in Japan. In terms of capitalization, it was more than four times larger than its nearest rival, Sankyo. Few Japanese citizens would not have heard of its signature product, Hoshi Ich_yaku (a digestive medicine), and many at the time were taking it regularly, even daily. Its sales network was firmly established throughout Japan and across the colonial states of Korea and Taiwan. The digestive medicine was making inroads in Southeast Asia and even among the Japanese diaspora in Hawai‘i and California. In 1925, its founder, Hoshi Hajime, was arrested for violation of narcotics laws. Hoshi was arrested again in 1932, this time on charges of bribing tax officials. He was found guilty and imprisoned for three months. (ex. John E. Herzog Collection)