Sadayoshi Fukuda
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Biography
Fukuda was the pseudonym of Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., born on 6 April 1917. He studied philosophy at Hosei University (Tokyo), graduating in 1940. In 1944 he was sent to Halmahera; he returned to Japan in 1946. Two years later he started teaching philosophy at his old university, where he would stay until 1970. Thereafter he supported himself by his writing.
Fukuda — the name he used as a teacher as well as a writer — was a prolific author: a hyōronka (critic or pundit) and popularizer of philosophy. He died on 11 December 2002.
Sources
- Gendai Nihon shippitsusha daijiten (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler) / Contemporary writers in Japan. 5 vols. Tokyo: Nichigai Associates, 1979.
- Hyōronka jinmei-jiten (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler) / Japanese critics and commentators: A biographical dictionary. Tokyo: Nichigai Associates, 1990. Template:ISBN
- 20-seiki Nihon jinmei-jiten (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler) / Major 20th-century people in Japan: A biographical dictionary. 2 vols. Tokyo: Nichigai Associates, 2004. Template:ISBN