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Muneo Matsuji was born in Tottori Prefecture in 1897. After he graduated from Doshisha University. He became a newspaperman of "Ryoto-Shimpo", one of the oldest Japanese newpaper in Manchuria. While working as a newspaperman, in 1992 he studied liberal journalizm in Missouri State Unversity, Colombia led by Walter Williams who had started the journalism department first in the United States. After he came back to Japan, he became a newspaperman for "the Tokyo Asahi" and published "Beikoku Shimbungyo-no-kenkyu" ("Study of Journalism in the United States"). In 1930 he published "Shimbungaku Gairon" (Introduction of Journalism). In all, he published 8 books of his own and 4 books under joint authorship. In this later years he became the head of Makassar branch in Celebes (now Sulawesi) and engaged in publishing "the Borneo" under Japanese naval rule. In this paper I am going to discuss his life and work as a liberal journalist. Under "the 15 year-war" and explain the correlation between the characteristics of Japanese Military and the newspapers in Southeast Asia after the opening of the Pacific War.
