Fukuda Tsuneari
was a Japanese dramatist, translator, and literary critic. From 1969 until 1983, he was a professor at Kyoto Sangyo University. He became a member of the Japan Art Academy in 1981. His criticism of the Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, pacifist Japanese establishment of the early post-World War II, Second World War era earned him early notoriety, though he is most well-known for his translations of William Shakespeare's oeuvre into Japanese, starting with ''Hamlet'' in 1955. He was a frequent contributor to conservative magazines, such as ''Bungeishunjū (magazine), Bungeishunjū'', ''Shokun!, Shokun'', and Jiyū. Called a "rhetorician", and a "conjuror of controversy", he frequently used cognitive reframing in his discourse. Life Tsuneari Fukuda was born to Kōshirō and Masa Fukuda on 25 August 1912 in the Hongō ward (now part of the Bunkyō special ward) of Tokyo. His name "Tsuneari" was chosen by novelist Ishibashi Shian, and originates from the works of the Chinese p ...
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