Akira Yamada

Born in Suwa city, Nagano prefecture.^[1] Yamada graduated from the Nagano prefecture Suwa junior High-school, and from the 8th High-school. Yamada graduated from the Kyoto Imperial University, Philosophy section of the Department of Literature in September, 1944.^[2]

• 1951, Instructor of the Osaka City University,^[2] Department of Literature
• 1955, Assistant professor of the Osaka City University^[2]
• 1957-, Studied at Collegium Angelicum, Vatican City, Italy^[1]
• 1965, Assistant professor of the Kyoto University, Department of Literature^[2]
• 1968, Professor of the Kyoto University (September, 1968)^[2]
• 1976, Director of Department of Literature in the Kyoto University^[2]
• 1980-1986, Chairman of the Society of Medieval Philosophy^[2]
• 1985, Professor emeritus of the Kyoto University^[2][3]
• 1985–1990, Professor of the Nanzan University, Department of Literature^[2]
• 1990–1997, Lecturer of the Nanzan University
• 1998, Member of the Japan Academy^[2][3]

Yamada won the Osaragi Jirou Award by Lectures on Augustinus in 1987. He wrote many studies books on Augustine, Thomas Aquinas et al., and edited and translated their books.^[3]

Yamada died of malignant lymphoma at the age of eighty-five, at Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, on 29 February 2008.^[2]

The following books are all in Japanese.

• The Fundamental Problems of Augustinus - 1st Book of Studies on Medieval Philosophy, (1977), Sōbunsha, ISBN 978-4423170052 (2003)
• The Studies on Thomas Aquinas' ESSE - 2nd Book of Studies on Medieval Philosophy, (1978), Sōbunsha, ISBN 978-4423300381 (1978)
• The One Who is the One Existing - 3rd Book of Studies on Medieval Philosophy, (1979), Sōbunsha,
• The Studies on Thomas Aquinas' RES - 4th Book of Studies on Medieval Philosophy, (1986), Sōbunsha, ISBN 978-4423300404 (1986)
• Lectures on Augustinus, (1986), Shinchi shobou, ISBN 4-88018-118-8
• The Christology of Thomas Aquinas, (1999), Soubunsha, ISBN 4-423-30106-7
• Lectures on Medieval Philosophy, 5 Volumes, (2021-2022), Chisenshokan, (edited by Shinsuke Kawazoe et al.)
• Lectures on Ethics, 5 Volumes, (2024- ), Chisenshokan, (edited by Yoshinobu Kohama)
• Analogia and God Tetsugaku-shobō, 1989, (as Representative editor)

• Thomas Aquinas Summa Thelogiae (39 volumes), Sōbunsha, 1965 -2003

Yamada translated and commented 6 books in this collection (in Part 1, Vol.3 to Part 3, Vol.28).

• The World Fine Books, 14th vol. - Augustinus - Confession, ed. et translation, (1968), Chuo-Koronsha, ISBN 4-12-400094-4
• The World Fine Books, 2nd season, 5th vol. - Thomas Aquinas - Summa Thelogica, ed. et translation, (1975), Chuou-Kouronsha, ISBN 4-12-400094-4
• Histoire de la philosophie. Idées. Doctrines (8 volumes), 1972-1973, by François Châtelet

Yamada translated Tome 2 - Philosophie Médiévale, Hakusuisha, 1976, ISBN 4560023689

• Piety of Christian, The Papers Dedicated to Master (Sir) Tōru Ingu in Commemoration of the 77th Birthday, co-editor, Yorudansha, 1989, ISBN 4842800143

• Yamada Akira: Poem Anthology, (?, circa 1980), Oka-shobō, (private edition)
• Poem Anthology - The Songs of Morning and Evening, (1986), Shinchi shobō
• The Mother in the Memory - Remembrance of Nihi Yamada, (1989), Shinchi shobō, (Editor and writer)

• (ja) Public Relations of Kyoto University, Vol.633 Page 22, 訃報 (News of death)
• (ja) Memorial Writing by Hidemi Mizuta (Japanese Society of Medieval Philosophy)
• (ja) Information of deceased member Japan Academy
• (ja) Koto-bank Koto-bank: Yamada Akira
• (ja) 『長野県人名鑑』信濃毎日新聞社 1974
• (ja) 「現代物故者事典 2006〜2008」 日外アソシエーツ 2009

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