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Janet Hunter Michio Morishima: an economist made in Japan Book section Original citation: Originally published in: Japan and Britain: Biographical Portraits IX. Renaissance Books, London, UK. (In Press) © 2015 Renaissance Books This version available at: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/57696/ Available in LSE Research Online: July 2014 LSE has developed LSE Research Online so that users may access research output of the School. Copyright © and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. Users may download and/or print one copy of any article(s) in LSE Research Online to facilitate their private study or for non-commercial research. You may not engage in further distribution of the material or use it for any profit-making activities or any commercial gain. You may freely distribute the URL (http://eprints.lse.ac.uk) of the LSE Research Online website. This document is the author’s submitted version of the book section. There may be differences between this version and the published version. You are advised to consult the publisher’s version if you wish to cite from it. Michio Morishima: an Economist Made in Japan In 1942 a young first year economics student at Kyoto University, Michio Morishima, was tasked by his teacher with reading and engaging with the substantive work Value and Capital, recently published by the British economist Sir John Hicks. Reading this work, an activity later described by Morishima himself as a form of passive resistance to the wartime regime, helped to fuel a lifelong commitment to economic ideas and theories that subsequently led to Morishima’s achieving celebrity status within Japan itself, becoming one of Japan’s few internationally renowned economists in the second half of the twentieth century, and probably the closest Japan has