Yoshimi Kuroda holds a PhD from Stanford University, USA. He is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, and Visiting Research Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of East Asian Development, Kitakyushu, Japan. His lifetime and representative research contributions are presented in his two-volume work entitled Production Structure and Productivity of Japanese Agriculture, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013.