is a Japanese

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and

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Rissho University , one of the oldest universities in Japan, was founded in 1580, when a seminary was established as a learning center for young monks of the Nichiren shu. The university's name came from the Rissho Ankoku Ron, a thesis written by Nichiren, a prom ...

. Yoshikawa was born in

Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...

. He won the Nikkei Economic Book Award and the Suntory Award (1984), the Economist Award (1993) and the Yomiuri-Yoshino Sakuzo Award (2000).Hiroshi Yoshikawa, Japan's Lost Decade, LTCB International Library Trust/International House of Japan, Tokyo, March 2002

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1951 births Living people People from Tokyo 20th-century Japanese economists 21st-century Japanese economists State University of New York faculty Osaka University faculty University of Tokyo faculty Rissho University faculty University of Tokyo alumni Yale University alumni Presidents of the Japanese Economic Association Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon {{Japan-economist-stub