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This article is the content of the author's doctoral thesis at Tohoku University. It follows the construction of all non-isotropic harmonic tori in complex projective space given by \textit{I. McIntosh} [Int. J. Math. 6, 831-879 (1995; Zbl 0851.58012) and 7, 515-520 (1996; Zbl 0871.53044)] which relates each such map, up to isometry, to its so-called spectral data (viz, an algebraic curve, a rational function on it and a line bundle over it). The first 50 or so pages recount this construction. One of the difficulties in this construction is that it provides a much bigger class of harmonic maps of the plane and then describes under what conditions such maps will be doubly periodic: these conditions are not easy to work with. This thesis attempts to find tori in the case where the spectral curve is either the Riemann sphere or an elliptic curve. In both cases the author first gives an explicit description of the spectral data and then he writes down conditions under which this data gives tori. The first case reduces essentially to a problem of linear algebra while the second case involves lengthy calculations with elliptic functions. He also produces some examples, but stops well short of describing the moduli space of tori for a spectral curve of genus zero or one. The reader should note that a minimal torus with genus zero spectral curve is necessarily framed by a homomorphism of the torus into the unitary group. The totally real minimal immersions of this type have been studied by \textit{G. Jensen} and \textit{R. Liao} [J. Differ. Geom. 42, 113-132 (1995; Zbl 0838.53047)] using a much simpler approach.