Where does “表現の自由戦士” come from?

表現の自由戦士 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 表現の自由, from Japanese の, from Old Japanese の, from Middle Chinese 能 — talent, ability.

表現の自由戦士 (Japanese): an anticensorship advocate passionate about defending freedom of expression

Definitions

  1. an anticensorship advocate passionate about defending freedom of expression

Ancestry of “表現の自由戦士”, step by step

表現の自由戦士 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 表現の自由

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese表現の自由freedom of expression
2Japaneseのgenitive case marker; nominative case marker in a...
3Old Japaneseのplain, field
4Middle Chinese能talent, ability

via Japanese 戦士

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese戦士a soldier, a combatant, a warrior
2Middle Chinese戰士—
Every word from Middle Chinese 能 →Every word from Old Japanese の →Every word from Japanese の →