Akira Yamada

Akira Yamada (山田 晶, Yamada Akira, 7 March 1922 – 29 February 2008[1][2]) was a Japanese scholar and philosopher of the West European Medieval philosophy.

Yamada graduated from the Kyoto Imperial University, Philosophy section of the Department of Literature in September, 1944.

[2] Yamada won the Osaragi Jirou Award by Lectures on Augustinus in 1987.

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

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Portrait of Akira Yamada, published by the Japan Academy