He was a Rockefeller fellow at Iowa University, a winner of Purple Ribbon Medal and a Lifetime member of the International Association of Agricultural Economists.
[3] Professor Yujiro Hayami was born on 26 November 1932 in Tokyo, Japan.
His college education was at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, University of Tokyo, from where he graduated in 1956.
He continued his education as a research associate at the National Research Institute of Agricultural Economics, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Ngoyo, Japan, but a year later, moved to the Department of Economics and Sociology, University of Iowa from where he obtained his PhD in 1960.
In 1986, he joined the School of International Politics, Economics and Business, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo where he worked as the professor of Economics till 2000 when he was made the Director of the Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development (FASID) till his death on 24 December 2012.