Mikio Suga
Around 1997, the Library was donated to the Institute for Seizon and Life Science by Professor Leontief. The relationship between Professor Leontief and the the Institute for Seizon and Life Science is described in Tsukui (2003).
According to Emi (2003), “The contract for the storage and operation of the library was exchanged by four related organizations (Institute for Seizon and Life Science, PAPAIOS, Chuo University, and Keio Economic Observatory) that have the right to use the Library. The storage and operation of the Library was entrusted to Chuo University.”About five years later, the Leontief Library was officially donated to Chuo University. On March, 2002, a donation ceremony was held for the Leontief Library from the Institute for Seizon and Life Science to Chuo University. Saburo Abe, Chief Executive Director of the Chuo University handed the “Receipt" of the Library to Koichi Emi, President of the Institute for Seizon Life Science.
20 years after, Chuo University made an offer to transfer the Library, and after discussion amongthe PAPAIOS executive members, it was decided that Hosei University, where the president of PAPAIOS works, would undertake the donation.
In December 2022, a transfer contract for the Leontief Library was signed between Masahiko Omura, Chief Executive Director of the Chuo University and Katsuya Hirose, President of the Hosei University.
In January 2023, the Leontief Library was transported from Chuo University to Hosei University and stored in a room of the Japan Statistical Research Institute, , hereafter JSRI, Hosei University.
JSRI and the Input Output Table have a fateful connection. Japan's first Input Output Table, which exists today, was estimated in 1953 for 1935 by a group led by Takafusa Nakamura, a student at the Arisawa Seminar at the University of Tokyo, and published by the JSRI. The institute moved to Hosei University in 1953, so it was published in the same year it moved.
Currently, JSRI is working on sorting and arrangement of the Library.
References
Emi, Koichi (2003) “About the donation of Leontief Library”, Journal of Seizon and Life Sciences, Vol.14A, pp.59-60.
https://mol.medicalonline.jp/library/journal/download?GoodsID=dk6seizo/2003/001401/006&name=0059-0060j&UserID=133.25.176.195
Tsukui, Jinkichi (2003) “Dr. Leontief and the Institute for Survival Science,” Journal of Seizon and Life Sciences, Vol.14A, pp.55-57.
https://mol.medicalonline.jp/library/journal/download?GoodsID=dk6seizo/2003/001401/004&name=0049-0053j&UserID=133.25.176.195
Nakamura, Takafusa et al. (1953) Estimation and Analysis of Input-Output Tables in Japan: About 1935, Japan Statistics Research Institute.