Education
He studied philosophy at Hosei University (Tokyo), graduating in 1940.
福田 定良
He studied philosophy at Hosei University (Tokyo), graduating in 1940.
Fukuda was the pseudonym of Yukiari Segawa (瀬川 行有, Segawa Yukiari), born on 6 April 1917. 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.