Hasegawa Nyozekan
Hasegawa Nyozekan was the penname of Hasegawa Manjir, a Japanese social critic, and journalist in the Taish and Shwa periods Japan. He was one of the most important and widely read supporters of liberalism and democracy in interwar Japan.
Nyozekan was born in the Fukagawa district of Tokyo, as the son of Yamada Tokujir. He was adopted into his paternal grandmothers family, and took their name of Hasegawa. Nyozekan was a student of the Tokyo Hgakuin legal school magazine. A few years later, he returned to newspaper journalism by changing jobs to the Osaka Asahi Shimbun.
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