Abstract
This article analyzes the current of the study of journalism ethics in the U.S. and tries to find out what Japan should learn from it. So, it discusses and deploys the point by paying the attention to the big flow that the Commission on Freedom of the Press initiated, as the starting point. There are two major flows in the U.S. The one is to try to establish a philosophical base of the study of journalism ethics. The other is the flow that global guidelines should be shown to the journalists in a form like the ethics code. Today, the study of journalism ethics in Japan has an issue to challenge, which is to release the study of journalism ethics from spellbinding of the study of the legal system in Japan.
