was a Japanese economist. He was widely honored for his scholarship, including the Presidency of the

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Early life

He was born in 1912, in

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to Iyo Shida and Nobuo Tsuru, an industrial Engineer. He also had 3 sisters, Keiko, Sumiko and Hisako. While being a student at the Eighth Higer School (now part of

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), he became politically involved in 1929–30, as a student leader in the "Anti-

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Leagues", activities against the Japanese military then in the early stages of aggression towards

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. He was imprisoned for several months. Expelled from the higher school and found himself unable to gain admission to

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, he went to the US for tertiary education. He first matriculated at

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, then transferred to

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, where he also completed a master's degree later. He earned his PhD from the same institution in 1940. He later served as chancellor of

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Bibliography

* ''On Reproduction Schemes'', 1942, in

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, Theory of Capitalist Development * ''Has Capitalism Changed?: An International Symposium on the Nature of Contemporary Capitalism,'' (Iwanami, 1961). * ''Environmental Disruption: Proceedings of International Symposium, March, 1970, Tokyo,'' (International Social Science Council, 1970). * ''Growth and Resources Problems Related to Japan: Proceedings of Session VI of the Fifth Congress of the International Economic Association held in Tokyo, Japan,'' (Macmillan, 1978). * *''The Political Economy of the Environment: The Case of Japan.'' London : Athlone, 1999. * ''Towards a New Political Economy'', 1976. * ''Institutional Economics Revisited'', 1993 * ''Japan's Capitalism: Creative Defeat and Beyond'', 1993

References

External links

Japan's Capitalism: Creative Defeat and Beyond. – book reviews
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tsuru, Shigeto 1912 births 2006 deaths Harvard University alumni Harvard University faculty Academic staff of Hitotsubashi University Academic staff of Meiji Gakuin University Marxian economists 20th-century Japanese economists Burials at Tama Cemetery