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PhD Political Science University of California, Berkeley
Masters Political Science University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Economics University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Chalmers Ashby Johnson was an American political scientist specializing in comparative politics, and professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego. He served in the Korean War, was a consultant for the CIA from 1967 to 1973 and chaired the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley from 1967 to 1972. He was also president and co-founder with Steven Clemons of the Japan Policy Research Institute , an organization that promotes public education about Japan and Asia.

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MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925-1975. (1982) (2563)
Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (2000) (568)
MITI and the Japanese Miracle (1982) (480)
The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic (2004) (372)
Japan: Who Governs? The Rise of the Developmental State.@@@The Postwar Japanese System: Cultural Economy and Economic Transformation. (1995) (194)
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (2006) (156)
Economic Crisis in East Asia: The Clash of Capitalisms (1998) (128)
Chapter Two. The Developmental State: Odyssey of a Concept (2019) (104)
Sorrows of empire (2003) (102)
Change in Communist Systems (1971) (100)
Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power: The Emergence of Revolutionary China, 1937-1945 (1962) (96)
An Empire in Eclipse: Japan in the Postwar American Alliance System (1989) (87)
The Industrial Policy Debate (1984) (76)
Illusions of Empire: Defining the New American Order (2004) (74)
Revolution and the Social System (1964) (66)
MITI, MPT, and the Telecom Wars: How Japan Makes Policy for High Technology (1986) (64)
Preconception vs. Observation, or the Contributions of Rational Choice Theory and Area Studies to Contemporary Political Science (1997) (56)
Politics and Productivity: The Real Story of Why Japan Works (1989) (56)
Japan's Public Policy Companies. (1979) (52)
Ideology and politics in contemporary China (1974) (52)
The Pentagon's Ossified Strategy (1995) (52)
The Patterns of Japanese Relations with China, 1952-1982 (1986) (50)
The Institutional Foundations of Japanese Industrial Policy (1985) (48)
Japan: Who Governs? An Essay on Official Bureaucracy (1975) (48)
Japanese-Style Management in America (1988) (47)
The Reemployment of Retired Government Bureaucrats in Japanese Big Business (1974) (45)
Comparative Capitalism: The Japanese Difference (1993) (42)
Dismantling the Empire: America's Last Best Hope (2010) (41)
Politics and Productivity: How Japan's Development Strategy Works (1989) (38)
The Japanese Political Economy: A Crisis in Theory (1988) (34)
Civilian Loyalties and Guerrilla Conflict (1962) (33)
An Empire of Schools. Japan's Universities and the Molding of a National Power Elite. (1997) (31)
South Korean democratization: The role of economic development (1989) (30)
Autopsy on people's war (1973) (30)
Okinawa: Cold War Island (1999) (29)
The “Internationalization” of the Japanese Economy (1983) (26)
Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power (1962) (23)
The Industrial Policy Debate Re-examined (1984) (22)
Communist China's foreign policy (1963) (22)
The Third Generation of Guerrilla Warfare (1968) (20)
The nonsocialist NICs: East Asia (1986) (18)
Tanaka Kakuei, Structural Corruption, and the Advent of Machine Politics in Japan (2018) (17)
Asian Revolutionary. The Life of Sen Katayama@@@An Instance of Treason. Ozaki Hotsumi and the Sorge Spy Ring (1965) (16)
Palace and Politics in Prewar Japan (1977) (16)
Comparing Communist nations (1970) (16)
The New Rich in Asia: Mobile Phones, McDonalds and Middle-Class Revolution . Edited by Richard Robison and David S. G. Goodman. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. xii, 253 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). (1997) (16)
How to Think about Economic Competition from Japan (1987) (15)
Political Science and East Asian Area Studies (1974) (15)
What's Wrong with Chinese Political Studies? (1982) (15)
4. Political Institutions and Economic Performance: The Government-Business Relationship in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwau (2019) (14)
American Militarism and Blowback: The Costs of Letting the Pentagon Dominate Foreign Policy (2002) (13)
The Role of Social Science in China Scholarship (1965) (13)
Japan in search of a "normal" role (1992) (13)
How China and Japan See Each Other (1972) (12)
Reflections on the Dilemma of Japanese Defense (1986) (11)
Conspiracy at Matsukawa (1972) (11)
Omote (Explicit) and Ura (Implicit): Translating Japanese Political Terms (1980) (10)
China: The Cultural Revolution in Structural Perspective (1968) (9)
ESSAY -- The Okinawan Rape Incident and the End of the Cold War in East Asia (1997) (8)
Japan's foreign policy, 1868-1941 : a research guide (1975) (8)
Japanese `Capitalism' Revisited (2001) (8)
East Asian Security: The Pentagon's Ossified Strategy (1995) (8)
Japanese-Soviet Relations in the Early Gorbachev Era (1987) (7)
The Rise of the Japanese Corporate System: The inside View of a MITI Official (1993) (6)
Perspectives on Terrorism (1976) (6)
Peasant Nationalism Revisited: The Biography of a Book (1977) (6)
The Two Chinese Revolutions (1969) (5)
An Intellectual Weed in the Socialist Garden: The Case of Ch'ien Tuan-sheng (1961) (5)
Delusion and Reality: Gambits, Hoaxes, and Diplomatic One-Upmanship in Vietnam (1979) (5)
History in Communist China. (1969) (4)
Korea, South and North, at Risk (2003) (4)
The Mousetrapping of Hong Kong: A Game in Which Nobody Wins (1984) (4)
The Empowerment of Asia (1995) (4)
Japan 1975: Mr. Clean Muddles Through (1976) (3)
The New Thrust in China's Foreign Policy (1978) (3)
What Is the Best System of National Economic Management for Korea? (2019) (3)
In search of a new Cold-War (1999) (3)
Guerrilla warfare in Asia: Asian Survey. June 1968 (1968) (2)
Japan's financial markets: Conflict and consensus in policy-making:,. Sydney, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1985. 271 pp., index. Cloth, $33.95. Paper, $13.95 (1987) (2)
The CIA and me (1997) (2)
East Asia: Another Year of Living Dangerously (1983) (2)
Yearbook on International Communist Affairs, 1976 (1975) (2)
Militarism in America (2005) (2)
Patriots and traitors, Sorge and Ozaki : a Japanese cultural casebook (2009) (2)
Go-Banken-Sama, Go Home! (1996) (2)
The United States and Asia in 1986: Demands for Democracy (1987) (2)
Low Posture Politics in Japan (1963) (2)
Pregnant with "Meaning!" Mao and the Revolutionary Ascetic@@@The Revolutionary Ascetic: Evolution of a Political Type@@@Mao Tse-Tung: The Man in the Leader (1977) (1)
Forecast. (Book Reviews: The Emerging Japanese Superstate. Challenge and Response; The Japanese Challenge) (1971) (1)
The Rise of “The Rest”: Challenges to the West from Late-Industrializing Economies . By Alice H. Amsden. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. vi, 405 pp. $35.00 (cloth). (2001) (1)
The Mandate of Heaven, Record of a Civil War, China 1945–49. By John F. Melby. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1968. xiii, 313 pp. Pictures, Index. $10.00. (1969) (1)
Old Friends, New Enemies: The Royal Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy, Strategic Illusions, 1936–1941 . By Arthur J. Marder. Oxford: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1981. xxxii, 533 pp. Illustrations, Maps, Index. $49.50. (1982) (1)
The End of American Hegemony and the Future of US-Japan Relations (1991) (1)
Understanding the Japanese Economy: Barriers to Increasing Trade (1988) (1)
The Good Empire (2007) (1)
Japan: The Year of "Money-Power" Politics (1975) (1)
Modern Revolutions: An Introduction to the Analysis of a Political Phenomenon. By John Dunn. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1972. xiii, 346 pp. $14.50, cloth. $4.95, paper. (1973) (0)
Japan's Foreign Policy, 1868–1941: A Research Guide . Edited by Morley James William. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1974. Pp. 618. $25.00.) (1976) (0)
History in Communist China. Edited by Albert Feuerwerker. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1968. xiv, 382 pp. Index. $12.50. (1969) (0)
Rethinking the Pacific . By Gerald Segal. [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. 400 pp. £37.50.] (1991) (0)
Japan's “miracle” economy (1996) (0)
My Yenan Notebooks. By Nym Wales. (pseudonym of Helen Foster Snow) [Madison, Connecticut: mimeographed, 1961 221 unbound pp. Appendices. $15.] (1965) (0)
The problem of Japan in an era of stractural change (1989) (0)
WPO volume 25 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1972) (0)
Theoretical Implications of the Japanese Way (1996) (0)
Studies in the History of the Chinese Communist Party. (1961) (0)
The John Doe Associates: Backdoor Diplomacy for Peace, 1941 (1975) (0)
The past, present and future of East Asian studies in the United States (2007) (0)
Remarks by Chalmers Johnson (1977) (0)
Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power: The Emergence of Revolutionary China, 1937-1945. (1964) (0)
"Kansei" no keisei: Nihon kanryosei no kozo (Creating 'Kansei': The Structure of Japan's Bureaucratic System) (1992) (0)
Advocate, Vol. 20, Fall No. 2 (2008) (2016) (0)
Recent Japanese Studies of Modern Chinese History . Edited and trans. by Joshua A. Fogel. A special issue of Chinese Studies in History, Vol. 18, Nos. 1–2 (Fall-Winter 1984–1985). [Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1984. 235 pp. $18.95.] (1986) (0)
LPAR Expression Levels During Chick Retinal Development (2018) (0)
The Future of Hong Kong: Toward 1997 and Beyond . Edited by Hungdah Chiu, Y. C. Jao and Yuan-Li Wu. [Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press “Quorum Books”, 1987. 262 pp. £35.00.] (1989) (0)
China and U.S. Academic Freedom (1984) (0)
Palace and Politics in Prewar Japan. By Titus David Anson. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1974. Pp. 360. $20.00.) (1977) (0)
The Japanese Question: Power and Purpose in a New Era. By Kenneth B. Pyle. Washington, D.C.: The AEI Press, 1992. 174 pp. $17.95. (1993) (0)
Politics and Sinology: The Case of Naitō Konan (1866–1934) . By Joshua A. Fogel. [Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University. Distributed by Harvard University Press, 1984. 420 pp. $20.00 £17·60.] (1985) (0)
Reply to Takemae (1990) (0)
The Emergence of Maoism: Mao Tse–tung, Ch'en Po–ta, and the Search, for Chinese Theory: 1935–1945 . By Raymond F. Wylie. [Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1980, 351 pp. $25.00.] (1981) (0)
International Studies and Academic Enterprise: A Chapter in the Enclosure of American Learning . By Robert A. McCaughey. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. 301 pp. Notes, Index $28. (1985) (0)
A Choreography of the Chinese Communist Movement (1971) (0)
DERK BODDE and CLARENCE MORRIS. Law in Imperial China: Exemplified by 190 Ch'ing Dynasty Cases. Translated from the Hsing-an hui-lan . Pp. xiii, 615. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1967. $17.50 (1969) (0)
A Structural Theory of Revolutions.Johan Galtung (1977) (0)
WPO volume 24 issue 4 Cover and Front matter (1972) (0)
Revolutionary Change (1982) (0)
Communist Policies toward the Intellectual Class: Freedom of Thought and Expression in China (1973) (0)
Mao and the Chinese Revolution (1965) (0)
An Introduction to Chinese Politics.@@@Ideology and Politics in Contemporary China. (1974) (0)
A List of Hypotheses and Assumptions (1980) (0)
Okinawa, the Shame of (1998) (0)
Japanese-Chinese Relations, 1952–1982 (2019) (0)
China Crosses the Yalu, The Decision to Enter the Korean War . By Allen S. Whiting. [New York: Macmillan. 1960. x + 219 pp. Maps. $7.50.] (1962) (0)
MILITARISM AND IMPERIALISM IN THE UNITED STATES (2003) (0)
Policy Paper 03: Japan in Search of a â€œNormalâ€ Role (1992) (0)
China and the Helping Hand, 1937–1945 . By Arthur N. Young. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1963. xx, 502. Appendices, Bibliography, Index. $10.00. (1964) (0)
The United States-Japan economic problem : , Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics, 1985. 164 pp., no index. Paperback, $10.00 (1988) (0)
WPO volume 24 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (1972) (0)
WPO volume 41 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1988) (0)
Eulogy for John S. Service (2000) (0)
Contemporary Soviet Law. Essays In Honor Of John Hazard (1977) (0)
A History of the Chinese Secret Service . By Richard Deacon. [London: Frederick Muller, 1974. 523 pp. £5·50.] (1975) (0)

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