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Osamu Shimomura (economist)
Japanese economist
This article is about the economist. For the biologist and chemist, see Osamu Shimomura.
The native form of this personal name is Shimomura Osamu. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Osamu Shimomura (下村 治 Shimomura Osamu, 1910 – November 27, 1989), born in Saga Prefecture, Kitagawa Village, was a Japanese economist considered to be the "father of the Japanese economic miracle".[1][2]
Biography
Upon graduation from the Economics Faculty of Tokyo Imperial University in 1934, he joined the Economic Stabilization Board of Japan until his retirement in 1959.
In 1956, he received his Ph.D. in economics from Tohoku University with the doctoral thesis "Multiplier analysis of economic fluctuations." A key advisor to Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda, Shimomura was the primary architect of Ikeda's famous Income Doubling Plan of 1960,[3] and played a central role in economic