Recently Y. Baba [Y. Baba, On self-duality of Auslander rings of local serial rings, Comm. Algebra 30 (6) (2002) 2583-2592] proved that certain quasi-Harada rings have a self-duality. In this paper, we also investigate left quasi-Harada rings and obtain several results including an improvement of the result of Y. Baba and applications to self-duality of locally distributive rings. Particularly we shall obtain several results related to Azumaya's conjecture ("every exact artinian ring has a self-duality"). 0. Introduction Y. Baba and K. Iwase [8] called a left artinian ring R a left quasi-Harada ring in case every finitely generated projective right R-module is quasi-injective. Symmetrically right quasi-Harada rings are defined. Left and right quasi-Harada rings are called quasi-Harada rings. Recently Y. Baba [7, Theorem 5] proved that if a quasi-Harada ring R satisfies the two conditions:( * ) gRg is a local serial ring; ( * * ) rad(gRg)\ rad(gRg) 2 contains a central element of gRg, then R has a self-duality, where g is an idempotent of R with gR a minimal faithful right Rmodule. In this paper, we notice that gRg ∼ = End R (gR) and End R (E(R R )) are Morita equivalent