Morita was born in 1915 in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture and graduated from the Tokyo Higher Normal School in 1936.
Three years later he was appointed assistant at the Tokyo University of Science.
[1][2] After teaching at the Tokyo Higher Normal School, he became professor at the University of Tsukuba in 1951.
The Morita conjectures on normal topological spaces are also named after him.
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