Eitaro Noro

{{Short description|Japanese economist (1900–1934)}}

{{Expand Japanese|topic=bio|野呂榮太郎|date=December 2020}}

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| known_for = Marxism, Japanese Capitalism

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| thesis_title = The historical development of Japanese capitalism

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| thesis_year = 1926

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{{Nihongo|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 labour 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.A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing, Volume 2By D.R. Woolf Page 663-664 {{ISBN|978-0-8153-1514-8}}

Noro was arrested in November 1933. He died on 19 February 1934, in Shinagawa Police Station.Janus-Faced Justice: Political Criminals in Imperial Japan By Richard H. Mitchell {{ISBN|978-0-8248-1410-6}} His death was the result of police torture.