Short answers, pulled from the story.
Teitarō Suzuki was born in Honda-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture as the fourth son of physician Ryojun Suzuki. His family fell into poverty after his father died during the decline of the samurai class following the fall of feudalism.
Suzuki founded the Eastern Buddhist Society in 1921 alongside his wife Beatrice Erskine Lane when he joined Otani University. The organization publishes a scholarly journal called The Eastern Buddhist while offering lectures and seminars focused on Mahayana Buddhism.
Articles published between October 3 and 13, 1936 revealed that Suzuki expressed sympathy for the Nazi regime and agreement with Hitler's policies regarding Jews. He claimed these policies were understandable given the peace of mind enjoyed by Germans at the time according to writings in the Japanese Buddhist newspaper Chūgai Nippō.
D. T. Suzuki received Japan's National Medal of Culture and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1963. He also produced an incomplete English translation of the Kyogyoshinsho which is the magnum opus of Shinran founder of the Jodo Shinshu school.
His book An Introduction to Zen Buddhism includes a thirty-page commentary by analytical psychologist Carl Jung who wrote extensively about Suzuki's work. Writings from Suzuki influenced figures such as Alan Watts and Saburo Hasegawa working at the California Academy of Asian Studies in San Francisco during the 1950s.