Arihiro Fukuda
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St Edmund Hall, Oxford (postgraduate)
Arihiro FUKUDA | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 19, 1963 |
| Died | November 16, 2003 (aged 40) |
| Other names | 福田 有広 |
| Alma mater | University of Tokyo (B.A.) St Edmund Hall, Oxford (postgraduate) |
| Occupation | historian |
Arihiro Hoeber Fukuda (福田 有広, Fukuda Arihiro, January 19, 1963 – November 16, 2003) was a Japanese historian who was an associate professor at the University of Tokyo Faculty of Law and specialised in the history of Western political thought, particularly the republican ideas of James Harrington, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, and Niccolò Machiavelli.
Fukuda received an M.Litt. degree in modern history from the University of Oxford in 1992, His master's thesis, "James Harrington and the idea of mixed government, 1642–1683", was selected for publication in the series Oxford Historical Monographs. It appeared in an expanded book form as Sovereignty and the Sword: Harrington, Hobbes, and Mixed Government in the English Civil Wars in 1997.[1]
Following his return to Japan, Fukuda retained close ties to academia in the UK. His Oxford college, St Edmund Hall, extended him rights of the Senior Common Room, a privilege usually reserved for college fellows. He contributed a haiku to the 2001 anthology, Chatter of Choughs, which was devoted to the heraldic symbol of St Edmund Hall, the Cornish chough.
Fukuda died suddenly on 16 November 2003.
The 18th Comparative Law and Politics Symposium held at the University of Tokyo on 2004-09-29, entitled "Republicanism in Historical Contexts", was dedicated to the memory of Arihiro Fukuda.[2]
