Shinichiro Kurimoto, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Shinichiro Kurimoto

Japanese academic

Date of Birth: 23-Nov-1941

Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan

Profession: actor, politician, singer, economist, legal counsel, anthropologist, philosopher, novelist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Shinichiro Kurimoto (?? ???, Kurimoto Shin'ichiro, born 1941 in Tokyo) and is a Japanese author and a politician.
He is also an economic anthropologist and a philosopher who introduced the ideas of Karl Polanyi and his younger brother Michael Polanyi to Japan.
He was a professor at universities such as Meiji University and Northwestern University.During the 1980s his works were categorized in Japan as "new academism", which included works by Akira Asada, Kojin Karatani and Shigehiko Hasumi.He frequently acted as a judge in the television show Iron Chef, appearing more often than any other judge.