Sadayoshi Fukuda

Sadayoshi Fukuda (福田 定良, Fukuda Sadayoshi, April 6, 1917 December 12, 2002) was a Japanese social philosopher and critic.

Biography

Fukuda was the pseudonym of Yukiari Segawa (瀬川 行有, Segawa Yukiari), 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.

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