For instance, in formal language theory, the Kuroda normal form for context-sensitive grammars bears his name.

Kuroda himself received degrees in mathematics and linguistics from the University of Tokyo.

In 1962, he entered MIT with the first graduating class from the new Department of Linguistics, where he wrote his seminal dissertation, Generative Studies in the Japanese Language (1965), under Chomsky's supervision.

Kuroda Prize to honor "work that has spawned a broad area of research" within mathematical linguistics.

It provides funding to Japanese students to attend the Linguistic Society's biennial summer institute.