Jun'ichi Yoda

Junichi Yoda (与田凖一, Yoda Jun'ichi, June 25, 1905 in Fukuoka – February 3, 1997) was a Japanese poet and a leading figure among Japanese authors of children's books during the Shōwa period.

While teaching at elementary schools in Chikugo, Yoda studied under Kitahara Hakushū.

Then he went to Tokyo and became an editor of Akai Tori (Red Bird), an influential children's literature magazine which Miekichi Suzuki published and where Nankichi Niimi was active at that time.

From 1950 to 1960 Yoda gave lectures on children's literature at Japan Women's University.

He was awarded the Sankei Juvenile Literature Publishing Culture Award for the Complete Works of Junichi Yoda (「与田凖一全集」) in 1967 and the Noma Juvenile Literature Prize for Noyuki Yamayuki (「野ゆき山ゆき」) in 1973.