福武直1917年出生于日本冈山县,1940年毕业于东京大学文学部社会学专业。后留校任社会学教授,1968—70年任日本社会学会会长,1977年任东京大学名誉教授。第二次大战以前曾多次来中国苏州郊斤进行农村调查,1946丰发表了《中国农村社 Fukuhara was born in Okayama, Japan in 1917 and graduated from the Faculty of Literature of the University of Tokyo in 1940 with a degree in sociology. After leaving school as a professor of sociology, 1968-70 years as president of the Japanese Society of Sociology, 1977 honorary professor at the University of Tokyo. Before the Second World War, he had come to the rural areas in Suzhou, China for many times to conduct rural surveys. In 1946 Feng made his remark that "China’s rural community