Jitsurō Terashima

I'll be honest, Jitsurō Terashima is the kind of commentator I trust precisely because he refuses to perform. Born in Hokkaido in 1947, he's a child of postwar Japan rebuilding itself from zero, and you can hear that hard-won ballast in how he talks. Waseda-trained, an economist and critic by trade, he explains the world the slow way, with history and data instead of outrage, and that low, unhurried voice that somehow makes a tangled global story click into place. He never seems to be chasing a clip or dunking on anyone, which feels almost radical now. The 1994 Ishibashi Tanzan Prize fits him perfectly, the establishment quietly recognizing grounded intelligence. He wins on weight, not flash, and I genuinely like that about him.

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Jitsurō Terashima is a Japanese economist and social commentator born on August 11, 1947, in Hokkaido, Japan. After Waseda University he joined Mitsui & Co., working in its research departments and in Washington, and later headed the Japan Research Institute and became president of Tama University. He received the Ishibashi Tanzan Prize in 1994.

Name (English)

Jitsurō Terashima

Name (Japanese)

寺島実郎

Reading

てらしま じつろう

Born

August 11, 1947 (age 79)

Origin

Hokkaido, Japan

Occupation

Economist / Commentator

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Boar

University

Waseda University

Awards & achievements

• 1994 — Ishibashi Tanzan Prize

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AF%BA%E5%B3%B6%E5%AE%9F%E9%83%8E
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9129670

Tags

• From Hokkaido
• Economist
• Commentator

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.