was a Japanese social philosopher and critic.
Biography
Fukuda was the pseudonym of , 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 () / Contemporary writers in Japan. 5 vols. Tokyo: Nichigai Associates, 1979. Hyōronka jinmei-jiten () / Japanese critics and commentators: A biographical dictionary. Tokyo: Nichigai Associates, 1990. 20-seiki Nihon jinmei-jiten () / Major 20th-century people in Japan: A biographical dictionary. 2 vols. Tokyo: Nichigai Associates, 2004.