Eitaro Noro

Eitaro Noro (野呂 榮太郎 Noro Eitarō, 1900-1934) was a Japanese economic historian. Noro was born in Hokkaido in 1900. He studied at Keio Gijuku University, where he first became involved in radical politics. He worked for a labor research institute following graduation. In 1930 he joined the Japanese Communist Party. He was instrumental in laying the foundations for the Koza school, a branch of Japanese Marxist thought.^[1]

Noro was arrested in November 1933. He died on February 19, 1934, in Shinagawa Police Station.^[2] His death was the result of police torture.^[1]

Works

• Nihon Shihonshugi Hattatsushi (History of the Development of Japanese Capitalism) (1930)

See also

• Japanese dissidence during the Shōwa period

References

1. A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing, Volume 2By D.R. Woolf Page 663-664
2. Janus-Faced Justice: Political Criminals in Imperial Japan By Richard H. Mitchell