{"id":3572,"date":"2007-05-18T00:34:16","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T07:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/18\/chalmers-johnson-2\/"},"modified":"2007-05-20T18:19:21","modified_gmt":"2007-05-21T01:19:21","slug":"chalmers-johnson-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/18\/chalmers-johnson-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Chalmers Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chalmers Johnson, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Nemesis-American-Republic-Empire-Project\/dp\/0805079114\/antiwarbookstore\"><em>Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic<\/em><\/a> discusses America&#8217;s descent down the path of militarism, secrecy, empire, authoritarianism and destruction, the role of the military industrial complex and the mass media and hope for a mass movement to restore the constitution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissentradio.com\/radio\/07_05_17_chjohnson.mp3\"><strong>MP3 here<\/strong><\/a>. (37:19)<\/p>\n<p>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 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. At Berkeley he served as chairman of the Center for Chinese Studies and as chairman of the Department of Political Science. His B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in economics and political science are all from the University of California, Berkeley. 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.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson has been honored with fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Guggenheim Foundation; and in 1976 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has written numerous articles and reviews and some sixteen books, including <em>Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power<\/em> on the Chinese revolution, <em>An Instance of Treason<\/em> on Japan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most famous spy, <em>Revolutionary Change<\/em> on the theory of violent protest movements, and <em>MITI and the Japanese Miracle<\/em> on Japanese economic development. This last-named book laid the foundation for the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153revisionist\u00e2\u20ac\u009d school of writers on Japan, and because of it the Japanese press dubbed him the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Godfather of revisionism.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>He was chairman of the academic advisory committee for the PBS television series \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Pacific Century,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and he played a prominent role in the PBS \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Frontline\u00e2\u20ac\u009d documentary \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Losing the War with Japan.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Both won Emmy awards. His most recent books are <em>Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire<\/em> (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2000) and <em>The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic<\/em>, which was published by Metropolitan in January 2004. Blowback won the 2001 American Book Award of the Before Columbus Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Nemesis<\/em><\/strong>: The Last Days of the American Republic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3572"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}