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Memorandum Concerning "Karate Expert"

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TIME-LIFE INTERNATIONAL

EDITORIAL OFFICES TOKYO

MEMORANDUM

TO: Carl Mydans

Date 7 February '48

FROM: Trevor

SUBJECT: Karate Expert

The address of the chief of the "Funakoshi” school of "karate" is:

Motonobu Hironishi, 27 Kutsukake-machi, Suganami-ku, Tokyo,

Office: Editorial Offices, Sekai Bunka Publishing Co,, 7th floor. Dentsu Bldg, (two blocks south of Mazda Electric Bldg.) over former Newsweek offices.

Hironishi can get us all the karate champions we could use. All he has to do is to phone the schools where he teaches and they will send out groups of karate students.