Abstract
This study reveals and properly evaluates the work and achievements of TAKAO Akio, who played a pioneering and leading role in the children's culture movement in the Kansai area. This paper introduces the public experimental broadcasts that TAKAO led as an employee of Osaka Asahi Newspaper Company in the early days of radio broadcasting, and discusses the role he played in these broadcasts. It is thought that these relationships with the media, in turn, fostered a network of media professionals in Osaka and resulted in the children's culture movement.