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
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 His death was the result of police torture.
Works Nihon Shihonshugi Hattatsushi (History of the Development of Japanese Capitalism) (1930)
See also Japanese dissidence during the Shōwa period
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