In 1930, Masaharu Taniguchi, working as an English translator for an American oil company, published the first issue of what he called his "non-denominational truth movement magazine", which he named Seichō no Ie (House of Growth) to help teach others of his beliefs. This was followed by forty volumes of his "Truth of Life" philosophy by 1932. Over the next forty years, he published an additional four hundred–odd books and toured many countries in Europe, South America, and North America with his wife Teruko, to lecture on his beliefs personally.