In junior high, he caught the attention of scouts batting 4th for Midori Chuo Seniors and aiding his team to win the national championship.

As a catcher, he would later form a battery with Hideaki Wakui, 2 years his senior and alongside other future pro, Takehiro Ishikawa qualified for the Japanese High School Baseball Championship.

At the 78th Japanese High School Baseball Invitational Tournament he performed duties at clean-up alongside Takuya Takahama and Kenji Sato.

He was expected to be third-string catcher behind Motonobu Tanishige and Kohei Oda but due to the existence of fellow rookie Daisuke Tanaka he finished the farm season making only 9 appearances and failing to register a hit.

However, he made more appearances with the farm team batting 4th marking his improvement by hitting a home run off former major leaguer Kazuhisa Ishii in the fall Phoenix League.

[9] He made his first field appearance as a substitute for an injured Tony Blanco at first base on 31 July however poor hitting as a pinch-hitter thereafter led to his demotion to the farm in August.

He continued as a pinch hitter from opening day and on 13 April, hit his second pro home run off the pitching of Yokohama DeNA Baystars reliever Shintaro Ejiri.

[11] His form would continue and on 15 April he hit his 3rd pro home run, once again as a pinch hitter, off the pitching of Hanshin Tigers reliever Kyuji Fujikawa.

[16] From spring training in 2015, Fukuda changed his batting form and hit 4 home runs and a league top 13 RBIs in pre-season fixtures[17] where he made the opening day roster for the first time in 3 years.

[18] Due to an injury to opening day first baseman, Masahiko Morino, Fukuda made his first seasons start on March 31 against the Yomiuri Giants where he raked 3 hits, 2 RBIs and a homerun.

[19] With former Chicago White Sox major leaguer, Dayan Viciedo joining the team as first baseman in 2016, Fukuda found most of his appearances at third base after Shuhei Takahashi's injury in April[20] and then later in left field.