is a Japanese

journalist A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public. This is called journalism. Roles Journalists can work in broadcast, print, advertis ...

. He is known for his books and articles on modern

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Early life

Morohoshi was born in

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city and grew up in

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. He studied modern Chinese literature at

Tokyo University of Foreign Studies , often referred to as TUFS, is a specialist National university, national research university in Fuchū, Tokyo, Fuchū, Tokyo, Japan. TUFS is primarily devoted to foreign language, international relations, international affairs and area studies. ...

. His graduation thesis is "

Liu Binyan Liu Binyan (; 7 February 1925 – 5 December 2005) was a Chinese author, journalist, and political dissident. Many of the events in Liu's life are recounted in his memoir, ''A Higher Kind of Loyalty''. Early life Liu Binyan, whose family hails ...

and freedom of speech in China". He studied at

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(from September 1987 to February 1989) and

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(from Sept.1991 to Jul.1992) to study modern Chinese literature. As a university student, he wrote a feature story about

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(a slum in

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) in the newspaper of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

Career

He worked at the ''

Hokkaido Shimbun The , which is often abbreviated as , is a Japanese language daily newspaper published mainly in Hokkaidō, Japan by . As of January 2025, its morning edition has a circulation of 730,000. It was first published in Sapporo in 1887. See also *Lib ...

'' Press, and completed a master's course at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in historical and cultural studies of modern China. He was a lecturer of Takaoka National College (later the faculty of art and design in University of Toyama) from Nov.1998 to Jan.2001.

Views

He appreciates

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period and regards

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, especially the

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, as fascism. He criticised Japanese journalist

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, whom he charged with concealing Honda's standpoint as a Maoist even though Honda admired the Cultural Revolution. Although many China watchers in Japan expected the Chinese economy (or China itself) to collapse around 2007, he rejected such claims. He wanted to report on the

persecution of Uyghurs Since 2014, the government of the People's Republic of China has committed a series of ongoing human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities in Xinjiang which has often been characterized as persecution or as ...

Xinjiang Xinjiang,; , SASM/GNC romanization, SASM/GNC: Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Sinkiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People' ...

, but

――the chief editor of ''Weekly Friday''―refused to carry the article.Morohoshi,"China has woken up from red dream――Uyghurs under economic reform"「赤い夢から覚めて――改革開放下のウイグル」''Quarterly China №39''『季刊中国』№39,December 1994,p.59.

Works

*『沈黙の国の記者――劉賓雁と中国共産党』''A Journalist in the Silent Country: Liu Binyan and the Chinese Communist Party'' (1992.12) *『ルポ中国』''China Now'' (1996.7) *『中国革命の夢が潰えたとき――毛沢東に裏切られた人々』''Disillusion to the Communist Revolution of China:People Betrayed by Mao Zedong'' (2000.1) *『チベットの現在』''Tibet Now'' (2014.1)

Translation

*『劉賓雁ルポ作品集』''The Selected Works of Liu Binyan'' (2004.7)

References

External links

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