is a Japanese scholar and philosopher of the West European Medieval philosophy

Medieval philosophy

Medieval philosophy is the philosophy in the era now known as medieval or the Middle Ages, the period roughly extending from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century AD to the Renaissance in the sixteenth century...

. Member of the Japan Academy since 1998.

Yamada graduated from the Kyoto Imperial University

Kyoto University

, or is a national university located in Kyoto, Japan. It is the second oldest Japanese university, and formerly one of Japan's Imperial Universities.- History :...

, Philosophy section of the Department of Literature in 1944.

• 1951, Instructor of the Osaka City University
  Osaka City University
  , abbreviated to , is a public university in Japan. It is located in Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka City.- History :OCU's predecessor was founded in 1880, as the Osaka Commercial Training Institute with donations by local merchants. It developed into Osaka Commercial School in 1885, then was municipalized in...
  
  , Department of Literature
• 1955, Assistant professor of the Osaka City University
• 1965, Assistant professor of the Kyoto University
  Kyoto University
  , or is a national university located in Kyoto, Japan. It is the second oldest Japanese university, and formerly one of Japan's Imperial Universities.- History :...
  
  , Department of Literature
• 1968, Professor of the Kyoto University
• 1976, Director of Department of Literature in the Kyoto University
• 1985, Professor emeritus of the Kyoto University
• 1985 - 1990, Professor of the Nanzan University
  Nanzan University
  is a private, coeducational university located in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The main campus is in the Shōwa Ward of Nagoya City, with another in Seto City and a recently established satellite campus near Nagoya's Takaoka Station on the subway Sakura-dōri Line....
  
  , Department of Literature
• 1990 - 1997, Lecturer of the Nanzan University

Yamada won the Osaragi Jirou Award by Lectures on Augustinus in 1987. He wrote many studies books on Augustine

Augustine of Hippo

Augustine of Hippo , also known as Augustine, St. Augustine, St. Austin, St. Augoustinos, Blessed Augustine, or St. Augustine the Blessed, was Bishop of Hippo Regius . He was a Latin-speaking philosopher and theologian who lived in the Roman Africa Province...

, Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas, O.P. , also Thomas of Aquin or Aquino, was an Italian Dominican priest of the Catholic Church, and an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism, known as Doctor Angelicus, Doctor Communis, or Doctor Universalis...

et al., and edited and translated their books.

Yamada died at the age of eighty-five, at Kamakura city, 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), Soubunsha, ISBN 4-423-17005-1
• The Studies on Thomas Aquinas' ESSE - 2nd Book of Studies on Medieval Philosophy, (1978), Soubunsha, ISBN 4-423-30038-9
• The One Who is the One Existing - 3rd Book of Studies on Medieval Philosophy, (1979), Soubunsha,
• The Studies on Thomas Aquinas' RES - 4th Book of Studies on Medieval Philosophy, (1986), Soubunsha,
• Poem Anthology - The Songs of Morning and Evening, (1986), Shinchi shobou
• Lectures on Augustinus, (1986), Shinchi shobou, ISBN 4-88018-118-8
• The Christology of Thomas Aquinas, (1999), Soubunsha, ISBN 4-423-30106-7

Translation and Others

• Thomas Aquinas Summa Thelogiae, Soubunsha, (Yamada translated many volumes in this translation programme.)
• The World Fine Books, 14th vol. - Augustinus, ed. et translation, (1968), Chuou-Kouronsha, ISBN 4-12-400094-4
• The World Fine Books, 2nd season, 5th vol. - Thomas Aquinas, ed. et translation, (1975), Chuou-Kouronsha, ISBN 4-12-400094-4