ABSTRACT
Borrowing the words from geneticist Hitoshi Kihara,1 it can be said that ‘the history of Marxian economics in Japan exists in its interpretation’. Yet many Japanese Marxian economists are always keen on political and economic problems of their time, and pay attention to the international tension between existing economic-social systems. They try to analyze contemporary problems basically and theoretically, and to interpret these problems in various ways by relating them to current economic-social systems in order to get a deep understanding of the problems and their causes.
