Akira Yamada

nihongo|Akira Yamada|山田 晶|Yamada Akira|extra=7 March 1922 – 29 February 2008 1951, Instructor of the Osaka City University,

Yamada won the Osaragi Jirou Award by Lectures on Augustinus in 1987. He wrote many studies books on Augustine, Thomas Aquinas et al., and edited and translated their books.

Yamada died of malignant lymphoma at the age of eighty-five, at Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, on 29 February 2008.

Works The following books are all in Japanese. The Fundamental Problems of Augustinus - 1st Book of Studies on Medieval Philosophy, (1977), Sōbunsha, (2003) The Studies on Thomas Aquinas' ESSE - 2nd Book of Studies on Medieval Philosophy, (1978), Sōbunsha, (1978) The One Who is the One Existing - 3rd Book of Studies on Medieval Philosophy, (1979), Sōbunsha, The Studies on Thomas Aquinas' RES - 4th Book of Studies on Medieval Philosophy, (1986), Sōbunsha, (1986) Lectures on Augustinus, (1986), Shinchi shobou, The Christology of Thomas Aquinas, (1999), Soubunsha, Lectures on Medieval Philosophy, 5 Volumes, (2021-2022), Chisenshokan, (edited by Shinsuke Kawazoe et al.) Lectures on Ethics, 5 Volumes, (2024- ), Chisenshokan, (edited by Yoshinobu Kohama) Analogia and God Tetsugaku-shobō, 1989, (as Representative editor)

Translation and Others Thomas Aquinas Summa Thelogiae (39 volumes), Sōbunsha, 1965 -2003 Yamada translated and commented 6 books in this collection (in Part 1, Vol.3 to Part 3, Vol.28). The World Fine Books, 14th vol. - Augustinus - Confession, ed. et translation, (1968), Chuo-Koronsha, The World Fine Books, 2nd season, 5th vol. - Thomas Aquinas - Summa Thelogica, ed. et translation, (1975), Chuou-Kouronsha, Histoire de la philosophie. Idées. Doctrines (8 volumes), 1972-1973, by François Châtelet Yamada translated Tome 2 - Philosophie Médiévale, Hakusuisha, 1976, Piety of Christian, The Papers Dedicated to Master (Sir) Tōru Ingu in Commemoration of the 77th Birthday, co-editor, Yorudansha, 1989,

Poetry anthology and Others Yamada Akira: Poem Anthology, (?, circa 1980), Oka-shobō, (private edition) Poem Anthology - The Songs of Morning and Evening, (1986), Shinchi shobō The Mother in the Memory - Remembrance of Nihi Yamada, (1989), Shinchi shobō, (Editor and writer)