Sayaka Morohoshi
Sayaka Morohoshi is a Japanese journalist. He is known for his books and articles on modern China.
Early life
Morohoshi was born in Kushiro city and grew up in Sapporo. He studied modern Chinese literature at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. His graduation thesis is "Liu Binyan and freedom of speech in China". He studied at Wuhan University and Peking University to study modern Chinese literature. As a university student, he wrote a feature story about San'ya in the newspaper of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.Career
He worked at the Hokkaido Shimbun 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 from Nov.1998 to Jan.2001.
Views
He appreciates Reform and Opening Up period and regards Maoism, especially the Cultural Revolution, as fascism. He criticised Japanese journalist Katsuichi Honda, 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 to collapse around 2007, he rejected such claims. He wanted to report on the persecution of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, but Katsuichi Honda――the chief editor of Weekly Friday―refused to carry the article.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
- 『ルポ中国』China Now
- 『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
- 『チベットの現在』''Tibet Now''
Translation
- 『劉賓雁ルポ作品集』''The Selected Works of Liu Binyan''