Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-08-28
SHE RUNS A BANK
Nine. Kin Seno Manages Big
Toxic Institution.
First and Only Woman to Attain Pc.
sition of President In Japanese RI
nanciai Depository-Is Great
Grandmother.

Tokio.-Mme Kin Seno is the first
and, so far, the only woman in Japan
to attain the rank of bank president.
Besides calling attention 10 her bust.
ness achievements her fellow Coun-
trymen are always careful to have
the stranger understand that she is a
model wife and mother. Progress in
Japan, SO the natives assert, includes
Doth men and women. To be account.
ed a new woman in Japan is con.
sidered high compliment. SO, when
the citizens of Toxic point TO their
woman bank president as their lead
ing new woman, they feel that all
is said.
Nine. Seno. when talking Of her sue
cess in business, is careful TO attribute
it all to her last" husband. On Sep.
TENDER 16, 1912, the oank of which
/ am the president was founded by In
Vesting part of the property OF my
family, said Nine Seno, in interest
ing English. And thus my last hus.
bands aim was realized on the re
lapse of about twenty years after his
death. He always said that his prop
erty was the result of his own labor
and saving, so that it must be safely
preserved generation by generation
On this point Of view he felt assured
that the bank business was the most
appropriate occupation in the world
because the aim of the bank in gen,
eral exists in the safeguarding of the
property of all people"
Nine. Seno is a kindly appearing
elderly woman-at least, one knows
that she must be elderly, having been
Informed, almost before her greeting
is returned, that she was born DE.
cember %, 1912. Then there are the
great-grandchildren and the two
grandsons, both officers of her bank
Without this knowledge it would be
easy to believe her scarcely in middle
life. Her complexion is the color OF
a ripe olive, and unWTinkled. and her
eyes are bright. Though she has ac
CURED many European customs, she
still clings to her native costume. Ii
Is easily understood why her fellow
countrymen take pride in her appear
ance, as well as her character and
bushes ability.
The bushes method Of nv bank
is negative, but reliable" she con
t1nued, after a few minutes thought
Moreover, the popularity of my bank
IS revealed in such organization as
that all the members of my family
are shareholders. My grandson Isuke
and his wife are directors. His young
er brother, ISaburo, is auditor. So ia
speak, my bank is purely domestic"
In spite of, or, it may be. because
OF, this domestic quality which Amer.
leans would call private, Nine. Seno's
reputation for pTobity and shrewdness
being well known and highly es-
teemed. her bank has q large business
Her negative policy" which an
American might call conservative. is
considered by her fellow countrymen
the best Of all methods when it comes
to handling their hard-earned cash
She is no wildcat trader. they as,
sure You with evident pride in theif
American slang as we'll as in the
shrewdness OF their woman finan
cier.
Speaking Of her early life. still care
fully exact with her English words
she said: 81 was born in Iiolkaldo
the northern insular island of Japan
My last husband was born at the dis
trict Okayama in the house in which
he lived during his early time as 2
farmer"