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== Cameras distributed as main distributor ==
 
== Cameras distributed as main distributor ==
* [[Walz (3&times;4)]]<REF> [http://syasinsyuu.cool.ne.jp/camera/syasinki34.jpg Advertisement] pulished in the 16 June 1937 issue of ''Asahi Graph'', reproduced in the [http://kyoto.cool.ne.jp/syasinsyuu/index.htm Gochamaze website]. </REF>
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* [[Walz (3&times;4)]]<REF> [http://syasinsyuu.cool.ne.jp/camera/syasinki34.jpg Advertisement] pulished in the 16 June 1937 issue of ''[[Asahi Graph]]'', reproduced in the [http://kyoto.cool.ne.jp/syasinsyuu/index.htm Gochamaze website]. </REF>
* [[Waltax]] (wartime, together with the wholesales branch of [[Honjō|Honjō Shōkai]])<REF> [http://syasinsyuu.cool.ne.jp/camera/syasinki23.jpg Advertisement] published in the 3 March 1943 issue of ''Asahi Graph'', reproduced in the [http://kyoto.cool.ne.jp/syasinsyuu/index.htm Gochamaze website], advertisement published in the April 1942 issue of ''Hōdō Shashin'', reproduced in {{Kokusan}}, p.&nbsp;107, and advertisement for the Waltax published between 1942 and 1945, reproduced in [http://www.remus.dti.ne.jp/~inasan99/camera/nostalgic_camera.html Nostalgic Camera] by Toshio Inamura. </REF>
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* [[Waltax]] (wartime, together with the wholesales branch of [[Honjō|Honjō Shōkai]])<REF> [http://syasinsyuu.cool.ne.jp/camera/syasinki23.jpg Advertisement] published in the 3 March 1943 issue of ''Asahi Graph'', reproduced in the [http://kyoto.cool.ne.jp/syasinsyuu/index.htm Gochamaze website], advertisement published in the April 1942 issue of ''[[Hōdō Shashin]]'', reproduced in {{Kokusan}}, p.&nbsp;107, and advertisement for the Waltax published between 1942 and 1945, reproduced in [http://www.remus.dti.ne.jp/~inasan99/camera/nostalgic_camera.html Nostalgic Camera] by Toshio Inamura. </REF>
 
* [[Alfax]] (together with the wholesales branch of [[Honjō|Honjō Shōkai]])<REF> [http://syasinsyuu.cool.ne.jp/camera/syasinki1.jpg Advertisement] published in the March 1942 issue of ''Hōdō Shashin'', reproduced in the [http://kyoto.cool.ne.jp/syasinsyuu/index.htm Gochamaze website] and in {{Kokusan}}, p.&nbsp;58. </REF>
 
* [[Alfax]] (together with the wholesales branch of [[Honjō|Honjō Shōkai]])<REF> [http://syasinsyuu.cool.ne.jp/camera/syasinki1.jpg Advertisement] published in the March 1942 issue of ''Hōdō Shashin'', reproduced in the [http://kyoto.cool.ne.jp/syasinsyuu/index.htm Gochamaze website] and in {{Kokusan}}, p.&nbsp;58. </REF>
 
* [[Mamiya Six|Mamiya Six II and III]]<REF> [http://syasinsyuu.cool.ne.jp/camera/syasinki2.jpg Advertisement] published in the 22 December 1943 issue of ''Asahi Graph'', reproduced in the [http://kyoto.cool.ne.jp/syasinsyuu/index.htm Gochamaze website]. </REF>
 
* [[Mamiya Six|Mamiya Six II and III]]<REF> [http://syasinsyuu.cool.ne.jp/camera/syasinki2.jpg Advertisement] published in the 22 December 1943 issue of ''Asahi Graph'', reproduced in the [http://kyoto.cool.ne.jp/syasinsyuu/index.htm Gochamaze website]. </REF>
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== Cameras distributed as authorized dealer ==
 
== Cameras distributed as authorized dealer ==
* [[Ako folders]]<REF> Advertisements published in the December 1941 and March 1942 issues of ''Hōdō Shashin'', reproduced in {{Kokusan}}, pp.&nbsp;58 and 60. </REF>
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* [[Ako folders]]<REF> Advertisements published in the December 1941 and March 1942 issues of ''[[Hōdō Shashin]],'' reproduced in {{Kokusan}}, pp.&nbsp;58 and 60. </REF>
  
 
== Notes ==
 
== Notes ==

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Nihon Shōkai (日本商会) was a Japanese camera distributor based in Tokyo that was active in the 1930s and 1940s.[1] This Japanese page at La Chambre Claire suggests that Nihon Shōkai was the owner of the Walz brand name before the war, and became Walz Shōkai after the war.

Cameras distributed as main distributor

Cameras distributed as authorized dealer

Notes

  1. Its address was Tōkyō-shi Nihonbashi-ku Tōri 2, 4 (東京市日本橋區通り二ノ四).
  2. Advertisement pulished in the 16 June 1937 issue of Asahi Graph, reproduced in the Gochamaze website.
  3. Advertisement published in the 3 March 1943 issue of Asahi Graph, reproduced in the Gochamaze website, advertisement published in the April 1942 issue of Hōdō Shashin, reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 107, and advertisement for the Waltax published between 1942 and 1945, reproduced in Nostalgic Camera by Toshio Inamura.
  4. Advertisement published in the March 1942 issue of Hōdō Shashin, reproduced in the Gochamaze website and in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 58.
  5. Advertisement published in the 22 December 1943 issue of Asahi Graph, reproduced in the Gochamaze website.
  6. Advertisement published in the 22 December 1943 issue of Asahi Graph, reproduced in the Gochamaze website.
  7. Advertisements published in the December 1941 and March 1942 issues of Hōdō Shashin, reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, pp. 58 and 60.