Hasegawa Nyozekan
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Hasegawa Nyozekan
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November 30, 1875 Tokyo, Japan |
| Died | November 11, 1969 (aged 93) Tokyo, Japan |
| Occupation | writer, journalist |
| Genre | literary criticism, essays |
Hasegawa Nyozekan (長谷川 如是閑?, November 30, 1875 -November 11, 1969) was the pen-name of Hasegawa Manjirō, a Japanese social critic, and journalist in the Taishō and Shōwa periods Japan. He was one of the most important and widely read supporters of liberalism and democracy in inter-war Japan.
Nyozekan was born in the Fukagawa district of Tokyo, as the son of Yamada Tokujirō. He was adopted into his paternal grandmother's family, and took their name of Hasegawa. Nyozekan was a student of the Tokyo Hōgakuin legal school (now part of Chuo University. He graduated in 1898 with a degree in criminal law. He was hired by Kuga Katsunan as a journalist in 1903, for the newspaper Nihon. In 1907, he was scouted by Miyake Setsurei and changed to the Nihon oyobi Nihonjin ("Japan and the Japanese") magazine. A few years later, he returned to newspaper journalism by changing jobs to the Osaka Asahi Shimbun.
His writings reveal his leftist political leanings, and in 1918, he resigned in protest after the newspaper was censured by the government.
In 1919, Nyozekan and fellow liberal journalist Oyama Ikuo founded the political magazine Warera ("We"), in which they sought to promote political reform and social democracy, while combating Japan's ever growing militarism and ultranationalism. In 1932, he published one of his most important works, Nihon fuashizumu hihan ("Critique of Japanese Fascism"), an analysis of the growing phenomena of "Japanese fascism”.
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