Shigeto Tsuru

Shigeto Tsuru (都留 重人) was a prominent Japanese politician and economist. He was widely honored for his scholarship, including the Presidency of the International Economic Association. He received several honorary degrees, including one of two that were ever given to a Japanese citizen by Harvard University.

Early life
He was born in 1912, in Nagoya,Japan to Iyo Shida and Nobuo Tsuru an industrial Engineer. He also had 3 sisters,Keiko,Sumiko,and Hisako.The Asahi Shimbun While in high school in Tokyo he became politically involved in 1929–30, as a student leader in the "Anti-Imperialist Leagues", activities against the Japanese military then in the early stages of aggression towards China. He was imprisoned for several months. Expelled from high school, he was sent abroad to America. His undergraduate work was at Lawrence College and the University of Wisconsin in Madison.