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Yaichirō Okada (岡田 彌一郎, Okada Yaichirō, June 24, 1892 – April 28, 1976) was a Japanese zoologist. He was born in Ishikawa Prefecture.

Okada studied at the Imperial Fisheries Institute (now Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology). He was a professor at Tokyo Higher Normal School (now University of Tsukuba), and after World War II he taught at Mie University from 1950, where he was dean of Fisheries. After retirement he served as a professor at Tokai University.

As a zoologist, has contributed in the field of fish taxonomy, as well as reptiles and amphibians. Okada's primary work in English was Fishes of Japan, which published in 1955 by Maruzen and subsequently issued in revised editions.

References

1. "Okada Yaichirō". Nihon jinmei daijiten+Plus. Kōdansha. Retrieved 7 February 2013.
2. ^ "岡田彌一郎" [Yaichirō Okada]. Nihon Daihyakka Zensho (Nipponika) (in Japanese). Tokyo: Shogakukan. 2013. OCLC 153301537. Retrieved 2013-02-08.
3. Okada, Yaichirō (1955). Fishes of Japan: illustrations and descriptions of fishes of Japan. Tokyo: Maruzen. LCCN 56002741. OCLC 1572737.

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