Yasui Takuma

Yasui Takuma ( Japanese 安井 琢磨 ; born January 4, 1909 in Osaka ; died December 17, 1995 ) was a Japanese economist.

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Yasui Takuma graduated from Tōkyō University in 1931 . He then taught at his alma mater, where he became a professor in 1939. In 1944 he took over a professorship at the University of Tōhoku and in 1965 also became a professor at the University of Osaka , where he headed the "Social and Economic Research Institute" there. From 1972 to 1984 he worked as a professor at the "International Christian University" (国際 基督教 大学, Kokusai Kirisuto-kyō daigaku). Yasui was honored by the universities of Tōhoku and Osaka as "Meiyo Kyōju".

As a supporter of the social scholar Kawai Eijirō (1891-1944), he campaigned for the modernization of Japanese economics.

In 1971 Yasui was honored as a person with special cultural merits and in the same year was the first economist to be awarded the Order of Culture . His "Gesammelte Werke" (安井 琢磨 著作 集, Yasui Takuma chosaku-shū), which appeared from 1970 to 1971 in three volumes, are among his works on economics.

Remarks

1. ↑ Meiyo Kyōju (名誉 教授) is occasionally rendered in German as "Professor emeritus". But in contrast to this title, which is automatically used on retirement, this is a special award only occasionally granted in Japan.

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Yasui Takuma . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993. ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 1741.

Web links

• Biographies of Yasui Takuma in the Kotobank, Japanese

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Yasui is the family name, Takuma the first name.