Chalmers Johnson is, most recently, the author of The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic, as well as of MITI and the Japanese Miracle (1982) and Japan: Who Governs? (1995) among other works. This piece originated as "remarks" presented at the East Asia panel of a workshop on "Transplanting Institutions" sponsored by the Department of Sociology of the University of California, San Diego, held on April 21, 2006. The chairman of the workshop was Professor Richard Madsen.

Chalmers Johnson's Salon stories

Thursday, Jul 31, 2008 07:50 ET

When war goes corporate

Grave threats to our national security may now include the mass privatization of U.S. intelligence and military operations.
Wednesday, May 3, 2006 08:00 ET

Peddling democracy

Convinced of our superiority, Americans keep trying to impose freedom on the rest of the world. It's arrogant, immoral -- and it hasn't worked.
Thursday, Jan 15, 2004 16:00 ET

Video games, dragsters and death

How the military's new recruiting tools lure kids unprepared for the real dangers of war -- an excerpt from "The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic."

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