Career
He died in Taiwan
During his short life, Doctor Fukuyama described over a hundred new species of orchids from Micronesia, the Ryukyus and Taiwan. Most of the type specimens he collected were housed in his personal herbarium (Herb Orch Fuk), located in Taiwan, and were previously believed to have been lost amid the upheaval in Japan following the close of World World War World War II Fortunately, however, most of Fukuyama"s type materials of Taiwan orchids were rediscovered, in the course of sifting through the botanical collection of one Doctor Genkei Masamune, which Masamune had bequeathed to the herbarium of the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History (KPM) upon his death in 1993. Although it is not entirely clear as to why he had them, it is known that Fukuyama had been Masamune"s pupil.
Among the materials found were Fukuyama"s original manuscripts of Studia Orchidacearum Japonicarum, Volumes
XI thru XIII.