Makoto Yano

Makoto Yano is the kind of economist you almost never hear about outside academic circles, and honestly that feels very on-brand. Born in 1952, he came up through the University of Tokyo — which, if you know anything about Japanese academia, is basically the final boss level — and he's been researching economics long enough to have watched Japan's high-growth miracle, the oil shocks, the bubble economy, and the lost decades all unfold in real time. There's something quietly remarkable about a career like that. After a Ph.D. at Rochester and teaching at Cornell, he went on to lead the Japanese Economic Association and the Kyoto Institute of Economic Research. The work speaks, or it doesn't. For someone who's been in the field this long, I'd bet it does.

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Makoto Yano is a Japanese economist born on May 27, 1952. He received his university education at the University of Tokyo. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Rochester in 1981, taught at Cornell, and later served as a professor at Keio University, president of the Japanese Economic Association and director of the Kyoto Institute of Economic Research.

Name (English)

Makoto Yano

Name (Japanese)

矢野誠

Reading

やの まこと

Born

May 27, 1952 (age 74)

Origin

Japan

Occupation

Economist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Dragon

University

University of Tokyo

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9F%A2%E9%87%8E%E8%AA%A0%20(%E7%B5%8C%E6%B8%88%E5%AD%A6%E8%80%85)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11584437

Tags

• Economist

Last updated

September 28, 2026

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