In order to investigate the change in the electronic structure with Mn doping of SrRu 1−x Mn x O 3 ͑SRMO͒, we have performed soft x-ray synchrotron photoemission spectroscopy ͑PES͒ and x-ray absorption spectroscopy ͑XAS͒. In the soft x-ray PES spectra, the sharp peak structure near the Fermi level ͑E F ͒, which was clearly observed in SrRuO 3 , was suppressed accompanied with Mn doping in SRMO. In the Mn 2p XAS and Mn 2p-3d resonant PES spectra, we have confirmed the existence of Mn 3+ ions with the electron doping to Mn 3d e g states and Mn 3d partial density of state never have finite intensity at E F in SRMO. These results suggest that the metal-insulator transition of SRMO with Mn doping is originated from the charge transfer from the itinerant Ru 4d t 2g bands to the localized Mn 3d e g orbitals.Perovskite-type transition-metal oxides ͑TMOs͒ have attracted much attention because of their unique physical phenomena such as colossal magnetoresistance, percolation, phase separation, etc., resulting from the strongly correlated d-band electrons and hybridization between the transitionmetal d bands and O 2p bands. 1,2 The ruthenates, as a class of TMOs exhibit a wide variety of physical properties derived from the itinerant-localized duality of Ru 4d electrons. SrRuO 3 ͑SRO͒ is known well to be an itinerant ferromagnetic metal ͑FM͒ with the Curie temperature of around 160 K. The substitution of 3d-metal ions for the Ru ions causes the localization of d electrons, electronic disorders, and charge transfer between the Ru ions and 3d-metal ions. Correlations among these phenomena result in the various physical properties such as metal-insulator and magnetic transitions in 3d-doped SrRu 1−x M x O 3 ͑M = Ti, Cr, Mn, Fe, etc.͒ system. [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] The one of the most striking compounds in the system is14 The other end of SRMO compounds, SrMnO 3 ͑SMO͒ is an antiferromagnetic ͑AF͒ insulator, which is originated from localized Mn 3d t 2g electrons since SMO has only Mn 4+ ions which have no Mn 3d e g electrons. Many investigations for unusual physical properties in the intermediate compositions of SRMO system have been reported. 7-14 Cao et al. 7 reported on singlecrystalline samples of SRMO that the Mn doping suppresses the itinerant ferromagnetic phase, and then induces a new insulating phase above the critical point x c = 0.39. For x Ͼ x c , the temperature variations in the magnetic susceptibility suggest the appearance of AF order in the insulating phase. On the other hand, Sahu et al. 8 reported on the polycrystalline samples that the ferromagnetic state is still stable up to x = 0.5. They also mentioned the charge transfer between Ru and Mn ions from the results of x-ray absorption spectroscopy ͑XAS͒. Recently, Yokoyama et al. 9 found using powder neutron-diffraction measurements that the itinerant ferromagnetic order in SRO changes into the AF order with nearly localized d electrons in the intermediate Mnconcentration range between x = 0.4 and 0.6. Kolesnik et al. 12 states the existe...