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CHALMERS JOHNSON is president of the Japan Policy Research
Institute, a non-profit research and public affairs organization
devoted to public education concerning Japan and international
relations in the Pacific. He has written numerous articles
and reviews and the author of more than a dozen books.
Chalmers Johnson taught for thirty years, 1962-1992, at
the Berkeley and San Diego campuses of the University of
California and held endowed chairs in Asian politics at both
of them.
He first visited Japan in 1953 as a U.S. Navy officer and
has lived and worked there with his wife, the anthropologist
Sheila K. Johnson, every year between 1961 and 1998. During
his earlier years he acted as a consultant for the Office
of National Estimates, part of the CIA, contributing to analysis
of China and Maoism.
In recent years Johnson's been writing on trends in American
foreign policy, particularly the consequences of America's
clandestine intelligence operations and the "blowback" from
U.S. strategic policies overseas. |
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