In 1922, Fuku went to the United States where he worked in the dry goods business in Seattle.
In the mid-1930s, he was very active both in the submission of his photographs to various salons and in photographic circles in Seattle, where he also had a solo exhibition in 1935.
He returned to Japan in 1936 and the next year had a solo exhibition in Mitsukoshi department store.
From 1940 he taught photography at Nihon University for one year.
After World War II, Fuku ran a commercial photographic studio in Kyōbashi, Tokyo.