Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Hasegawa Nyozekan (November 30, 1875 -November 11, 1969) was the pen-name of Hasegawa Manjir , a Japanese social critic, and journalist in the Taish and Sh wa 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 Tokujir . He was adopted into his paternal grandmother's family, and took their name of Hasegawa.