# Arihiro Fukuda

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**Arihiro Hoeber Fukuda** (福田 有広, *Fukuda Arihiro*, January 19, 1963 – November 16, 2003) was a Japanese [historian](/source/Historian) who was an [associate professor](/source/Associate_professor) at the [University of Tokyo](/source/University_of_Tokyo) Faculty of Law and specialised in the history of Western [political thought](/source/Political_thought), particularly the [republican](/source/Republicanism) ideas of [James Harrington](/source/James_Harrington_(author)), [Thomas Hobbes](/source/Thomas_Hobbes), [David Hume](/source/David_Hume), and [Niccolò Machiavelli](/source/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli).

## Life and work

Fukuda received an [M.Litt.](/source/M.Litt.) degree in modern history from the [University of Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford) in 1992, His [master's](/source/Master's) [thesis](/source/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](/source/St_Edmund_Hall), extended him rights of the [Senior Common Room](/source/Senior_Common_Room), a privilege usually reserved for college [fellows](/source/Fellow). He contributed a [haiku](/source/Haiku) to the 2001 anthology, *Chatter of Choughs*, which was devoted to the [heraldic](/source/Heraldic) symbol of St Edmund Hall, the [Cornish chough](/source/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]

## Contributions to scholarship

One of Fukuda's main contributions to the history of political thought is a critique of [J.G.A. Pocock](/source/J.G.A._Pocock)'s understanding of republicanism.[3][4] According to [Eric M. Nelson](/source/Eric_M._Nelson), Fukuda has argued for seeing Renaissance republicanism as not only a political structure, but also as an ethical position.[5]

In *Sovereignty and the Sword*, Fukuda is credited with offering a new interpretation of Harrington's ideas on republicanism,[6][7] based on a "post-Pocockian analysis".[6]

## Selected works

- Fukuda, Arihiro (1997). *Sovereignty and the Sword: Harrington, Hobbes, and Mixed Government in the English Civil Wars*. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-820683-5. [OCLC 36207536](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36207536)
- Fukuda, Arihiro (2002). *Demokurashī no seijigaku = Politics and democracy* (in Japanese). Taniguchi, Masaki (ed.). Tokyo: Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai. ISBN 978-4-13-030126-8. [OCLC 52580670](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52580670)
- Fukuda, Arihiro (2005 [2001]). "Japanese Haiku". *Chatter of Choughs: An Anthology Celebrating the Return of Cornwall's Legendary Bird*. 2nd ed. Lucy Newlyn (ed.). Penzance: The Hypatia Trust. p. 116. ISBN 1-872229-49-2. [OCLC 64309779](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64309779)

## References

1. [Oxford University Press: Sovereignty and the Sword: Arihiro Fukuda](http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryWorld/British/17thC/?view=usa&ci=9780198206835) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20070929115116/http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryWorld/British/17thC/?view=usa&ci=9780198206835) September 29, 2007 at the Wayback Machine

1. ["ICCLP ProfessorsList"](https://web.archive.org/web/20070703215435/http://www.j.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~icclp/sympo-e.html). Archived from [the original](http://www.j.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~icclp/sympo-e.html) on 2007-07-03. Retrieved 2007-06-04.

1. Inuzuka, Hajime (March 2006). ["Arihiro Fukuda (1964-2003): His Works and Achievements"](http://jww.iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp/publishments/dp/dpf/pdf/f-122.pdf). *Discussion Paper Series, No. F-122*. Institute of Social Science, [University of Tokyo](/source/University_of_Tokyo). Retrieved 5 December 2008.

1. Davis, J.C. (2008). ["'Epic Years': The English Revolution and J.G.A. Pocock's Approach to the History of Political Thought"](http://openurl.ingenta.com/content?genre=article&issn=0143-781X&volume=29&issue=3&spage=519&epage=542). *History of Political Thought*. **29** (3): 539. [ISSN 0143-781X](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0143-781X). Retrieved 2008-12-05.

1. Nelson, Eric (2001). "Greek Nonsense in More's "Utopia"". *The Historical Journal*. **44** (4): 892. [doi:10.1017/S0018246X01002096](https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X01002096). [ISSN 0018-246X](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0018-246X). [JSTOR 3133544](https://www.jstor.org/stable/3133544). [S2CID 202309535](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:202309535)

1. Scott, Jonathan (2000). "Book review". *[English Historical Review](/source/English_Historical_Review)*. **115** (462): 660–2. [doi:10.1093/ehr/115.462.660](https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.462.660). [ISSN 0013-8266](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0013-8266)

1. Ahnert, Thomas (2001). ["The Varieties of Contexts in Early Stuart Intellectual History"](https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/files/11871613/The_Varieties_of_Contexts_in_Early_Stuart_Intellectual_History.pdf). *The Historical Journal*. **44** (2): 571–2. [doi:10.1017/S0018246X01001893](https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X01001893). [ISSN 0018-246X](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0018-246X). [JSTOR 3133621](https://www.jstor.org/stable/3133621). [S2CID 143918019](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:143918019)

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