Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Chalmers Johnson, guest editor of this issue, is President of the Japan Policy Research Institute. Among his works are M1TI and the Japanese Miracle (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1982); Japan: Who Governs? (New York: W. W. Norton, 1995); Okinawa: Cold War Island (Cardiff, Calif.: Japan Policy Research Institute, 1999) (editor and contributor); and Blowback: The Costs and Conse­ quences ofAmerican Empire (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2000). Sam Jameson has been a journalist in Japan for forty years, work­ ing for the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and Pacific Stars and Stripes. He was bureau chief for both the Times and the Tribune and is currently a reporter for Asian Business magazine. During 1996 and 1997, he was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies at Saitama University, and in 2000, he held the Paul I. Terasaki Chair in U.S.-Japan Relations as a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is finishing a book enti­ tled The Third Japan. Robert Angel teaches Political Science at the University of South Carolina. He is a former president of the Japan Economic Institute in Washington, D.C. His writings include "Prime Ministerial Lead­ ership in Japan," Pacific Affairs (Winter, 1988-89), and Explaining Economic Policy Failure: Japan in the 1969-71 International Monetary Crisis (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991). David T. Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Adjunct professor of law at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His Ph.D. in jurisprudence and social policy is from the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. During the academic year 1996-97, he was an Advanced Research Fellow in the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at Harvard University. His book, The Japanese Way of Justice: Prosecuting Crime in Japan, is in press at Oxford University Press. Norbert A. Schlei is a practicing attorney in Santa Monica, Califor­ nia. A magna cum laude graduate of the Yale Law School and for­ mer law clerk to Supreme Court Justice John Harlan, Schlei served from 1962 to 1966 as Assistant Attorney General of the United States by appointment of President Kennedy. For seventeen years preceding his retirement to solo practice, he was the partner in charge of the Los Angeles office of the Wall Street law firm of Hughes Hubbard & Reed. Michael Schaller is a Professor of History at the University of Ari­ zona and author of The United States and China in the Twentieth Cen­ tury (1979), The American Occupation ofJapan: The Origins of the Cold War in Asia (1985), Douglas MacArthur: The Far Eastern General (1989), and Altered States: The United States and Japan Since the Occu­ pation (1997), all published by Oxford University Press in New York. Murray Sayle is a senior Australian journalist long resident in Japan. He has provided criticism and guidance to a generation of other writ­ ers about Japanese affairs. Today he contributes to The New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, and the London Review of Books on East Asian subjects. His early novel about life as a journalist for a Heet Street scandal-mongering paper, A Crooked Sixpence (London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1960), is an underground classic. Cynthia Worthington is a lawyer and a member of the New York State Bar. She has served in the Office of the Administrative Law Judges, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C., as a leg­ islative intern for the Vermont General Assembly, and as an attor­ ney in a law firm in Tokyo. She is one of the founders and the pres­ ident of the Kumamoto General Union. From April 1993 to April 2000, she worked as an assistant professor at the Prefectural Uni­ versity of Kumamoto. Erin Aeran Chung is an advanced doctoral student in political sci­ ence at Northwestern University. She received a grant from the Japan Foundation to support her research in Japan on Korean communities. Her article in this issue is adapted from her presen­ tation to the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, San Diego, March 2000. Andrew DeWit is Associate Professor of Economic Policymaking at Shimonoseki City University and author of “Gendai zaisei shakaigaku no shochoryu...