Tarō Naka
23 January 1922 – 1 June 2014 was a prize-winning Japanese poet. He was born Shōjirō Fukuda in Hakata, now Fukuoka, on the island of Kyushu in western Japan. At school he read, among others, Sakutarō Hagiwara, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles Baudelaire, and the Kyoto School philosopher Kitarō Nishida.
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Tarō Naka
- Born
- 1922 · Fukuoka.
- Died
- 2014
- Nationality
- Japan · Empire of Japan
- Occupation
- writer · poet
- Education
- University of Tokyo
- Honours
- Modern Poetry Prize · Japan Art Academy Prize
- Languages
- Japanese
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Tarō Naka, a writer, was born in 1922 and died in 2014.
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Born at Fukuoka in 1922, died in 2014.
Tarō Naka studied at University of Tokyo. The recorded working language is Japanese. Employment is recorded with Tamagawa University. Distinctions recorded are Modern Poetry Prize and Japan Art Academy Prize.
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