ABSTRACT
Tadashi Fukutake who was born in 1917 is one of Japan’s leading sociologists. After graduating from the University of Tokyo in 1940 he conducted a wartime survey of a Chinese village community. The results of this study were published in his first major book, Chūgoku nōsonshakai no kōzō (The Social Structure of a Chinese Village Community) in 1946. In 1948 Fukutake became assistant professor at the University of Tokyo, and in 1960 was promoted to professor. Thereafter he published many books including some in English, of which Man and Society in Japan (1962), Japanese Rural Society (1967), and Japanese Society Today (1974) were especially significant.
