Chalmers Johnson

The focus of this book is on the Japanese economic bureaucracy, particularly on the famous Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), as the leading state actor in the economy. Although MITI was not the only important agent affecting the economy, nor was the state as a whole always predominant, I do not want to be overly modest about the importance of this subject. The particular speed, form, and consequences of Japanese economic growth are not intelligible without reference to the contributions of MITI. Collaboration between the state and big business has long been acknowledged as the defining characteristic of the Japanese economic system, but for too long the state's role in this collaboration has been either condemned as overweening or dismissed as merely supportive, without anyone's ever analyzing the matter. The history of MITI is central to the economic and political history of modern Japan. Equally important, however, the methods and achievements of the Japanese economic bureaucracy are central to the continuing debate between advocates of the communist-type command economies and advocates of the Western-type mixed market economies. The fully bureaucratized command economies misallocate resources and stifle initiative; in order to function at all, they must lock up their populations behind iron curtains or other more or less impermeable barriers. The mixed market economies struggle to find ways to intrude politically determined priorities into their market systems without catching a bad case of the "English disease" or being frustrated by the American-type legal sprawl. The Japanese, of course, do not have all the answers. But given the fact that virtually all solutions to any of the critical problems of the late twentieth century―energy supply, environmental protection, technological innovation, and so forth―involve an expansion of official bureaucracy, the particular Japanese priorities and procedures are instructive. At the very least they should forewarn a foreign observer that the Japanese achievements were not won without a price being paid.

Now with a new and up-to-date Introduction by the author, the bestselling account of the effect of American global policies, hailed as "brilliant and iconoclastic" (Los Angeles Times)The term "blowback," invented by the CIA, refers to the unintended results of American actions abroad. In this incisive and controversial book, Chalmers Johnson lays out in vivid detail the dangers faced by our overextended empire, which insists on projecting its military power to every corner of the earth and using American capital and markets to force global economic integration on its own terms. From a case of rape by U.S. servicemen in Okinawa to our role in Asia's financial crisis, from our early support for Saddam Hussein to our conduct in the Balkans, Johnson reveals the ways in which our misguided policies are planting the seeds of future disaster.In a new edition that addresses recent international events from September 11 to the war in Iraq, this now classic book remains as prescient and powerful as ever.

From the author of the prophetic national bestseller Blowback , a startling look at militarism, American style, and its consequences abroad and at homeIn the years after the Soviet Union imploded, the United States was described first as the globe's "lone superpower," then as a "reluctant sheriff," next as the "indispensable nation," and now, in the wake of 9/11, as a "New Rome." Here, Chalmers Johnson thoroughly explores the new militarism that is transforming America and compelling its people to pick up the burden of empire.Reminding us of the classic warnings against militarism―from George Washington's farewell address to Dwight Eisenhower's denunciation of the military-industrial complex―Johnson uncovers its roots deep in our past. Turning to the present, he maps America's expanding empire of military bases and the vast web of services that supports them. He offers a vivid look at the new caste of professional warriors who have infiltrated multiple branches of government, who classify as "secret" everything they do, and for whom the manipulation of the military budget is of vital interest.Among Johnson's provocative conclusions is that American militarism is putting an end to the age of globalization and bankrupting the United States, even as it creates the conditions for a new century of virulent blowback. The Sorrows of Empire suggests that the former American republic has already crossed its Rubicon―with the Pentagon leading the way.

Political Science on the subject of American involvement in so many wars. The tragic aftereffects of war; social consequences; medical; financial; all catastrophic and lingering problems."...in Nemesis, the final volume in what has become the Blowback Trilogy, he (Chalmers Johnson) shows how imperial overstretch is undermining the republic itself, both economically and politically...Nemesis offers a striking description of the trap into which the grandiose dreams of America's leaders have taken us." Inside book cover comments.

The author of the bestselling Blowback Trilogy reflects on America's waning power in a masterful collection of essaysIn his prophetic book "Blowback," published before 9/11, Chalmers Johnson warned that our secret operations in Iraq and elsewhere around the globe would exact a price at home. Now, in a brilliant series of essays written over the last three years, Johnson measures that price and the resulting dangers America faces. Our reliance on Pentagon economics, a global empire of bases, and war without end is, he declares, nothing short of "a suicide option.""Dismantling the Empire" explores the subjects for which Johnson is now famous, from the origins of blowback to Barack Obama's Afghanistan conundrum, including our inept spies, our bad behavior in other countries, our ill-fought wars, and our capitulation to a military that has taken ever more control of the federal budget. There is, he proposes, only one way out: President Obama must begin to dismantle the empire before the Pentagon dismantles the American Dream. If we do not learn from the fates of past empires, he suggests, our decline and fall are foreordained. This is Johnson at his best: delivering both a warning and an urgent prescription for a remedy.

A Stanford University Press classic.

This is a classic study by a leading theorist of revolution, Revolutionary Change has gone through eleven printings since its appearance in 1966 and been translated into German, French, and Korean. This carefully revised edition not only brings the original analysis up to date but adds two entirely new one on terrorism, the most celebrated form of political violence throughout the 1970s, and one on theories of revolution from Brinton to the present day.

An economical analysis of Japan's current financial status notes its overall wealth during recessionary times, competitive industrial achievements, efficient and inexpensive social systems, and promising future.

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On September 4, 1995, three American servicemen abducted and raped a twelve-year-old schoolgirl in Okinawa. The reaction to that rape throughout Japan and around the world mobilized otherwise inattentive people to the persistence of Cold War-type relationships in East Asia-- particularly to the presence of 100,000 American troops-- and started to end the artificial distinction between economics and security in relations between the United States and its trading partners in East Asia. It also caused some observers to begin to see Okinawa not simply as Japan's poorest prefecture but also as an American colony located on Japanese soil. Okinawa and its role in the Cold War is hidden history for most Americans and Japanese. It was the scene of the last and bloodiest battle of World War II and was occupied by the American military until 1972. Since then it has remained the site of some 39 American military bases located in close proximity to the 1.29 million people of Okinawa. This book offers a pioneering selection of essays on the Battle of Okinawa, forced emigration of Okinawans to Bolivia, Okinawan identity, the rape incident and the rekindling of Okinawan protest against the bases, the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, economic development in Okinawa, the environmental degradation of Okinawa, and the Clinton administration's deceptive promises to the Okinawans. Authors include former governor of Okinawa prefecture Masahide Ota, the editor of The Ryukyuanist Koji Taira, the pioneer writer on Okinawans in Bolivia Kozy K. Amemiya, one of the founders of Okinawa Women Act Against Military Violence Carolyn Bowen Francis, the leading American scholar of Okinawan literature Steve Rabson, journalists Mike Millard, Shunji Taoka, and Patrick Smith, and professors Gavan McCormack, Masayuki Sasaki, and Chalmers Johnson.

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Preface to the book This paper was prepared as a contribution to the panel on "Theories on Modern Revolution and Violence" at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, New York, September 4-7, 1963. I want to thank Professor Sheldon Wolin, chairman of the panel, and Professor Ernst Haas, both of whom read and criticized the first draft. I would also like to acknowledge the contribution of my students in the graduate seminar on revolutionary strategy at Berkeley, where these ideas were first expounded and explored. The framework for analyzing revolutions offered here is an outline for a larger study of revolution now in progress. I welcome critical comments on this formulation from interested readers. Chalmers Johnson Department of Political Science University of California Berkeley, California

Dust jacket "In 1949, in American-occupied Japan, the president of the Japanese National Railroads was run over by a train. His death may have been a suicide; it may have been a murder; it has never been explained. A few weeks later several other crimes involving the railways were committed. The most important of these was the wrecking by sabotage of a train at Matsukawa in which three persons died. The Matsukawa incident produced the greatest cause celebre in the history of law suits in Japan. Twenty workers, nineteen of them either Communists or trade-union leaders, were charged with the crime and brought to trial. Their case remained before the courts until 1970, when they were not only exonerated but paid damages by the Japanese Government for possibly having been victims of a frame-up by the prosecution. Mr. Johnson uses this comprehensive study of the Matsukawa case to analyze the Americans' attempt during the Occupation to introduce Anglo-American adversary proceedings into Japanese criminal trials, the change in Occupation policy that occurred in 1949 when the Americans became committed more to Japanese economic growth than to 'democratizing' Japan, the radicalization of left-wing politics in Japan, and the relationship between the Occupation and Japan's present status as the world's third-ranking industrial power. An exhaustive case study, the book examines in detail one of the most controversial criminal investigations and trials in the history of Japan. It also fully investigates the charges made in post-Occupation Japan that clandestine American agents may have committed the sabotage at Matsukawa. The account draws on many hitherto unused sources and memoirs, including the archives of the United States Occupation of Japan, and provides the first analysis in English of the Matsukawa case."

As Aflições Do Império, de Chalmers Johnson, é como uma continuação de seu aclamado livro anterior, Blowback. Na primeira obra o autor adotou a suposição de que o governo americano estava funcionando mais ou menos como fez durante a Guerra Fria, e destacou o potencial de conflito no Leste Asiático. No novo livro, o tema abordado é o militarismo americano. Nos anos após a implosão da União Soviética, os Estados Unidos foram primeiramente descritos como a “única superpotência” do globo, em seguida como um “xerife relutante”, depois como uma “nação indispensável”, e, por fim, no despertar do 11 de Setembro, como a “Nova Roma”. Em As Aflições Do Império, Johnson explora intensamente o novo militarismo que está transformando a América e compelindo seu povo a carregar o fardo do império. “Ao contrário de outros povos, os americanos, em sua grande maioria, não reconhecem - ou não querem reconhecer - que os Estados Unidos dominam o mundo graças ao seu poderio militar. Devido à política de segredo do governo, eles costumam ignorar que o seu país tem soldados por toda parte e não percebem que a existência de uma vasta rede de bases militares espalhadas pelos diversos continentes, à exceção da Antártica, constitui, na verdade, uma nova forma de imperialismo”, diz o autor. Ao evocar as clássicas advertências contra o militarismo - do Discurso de Despedida de George Washington à denúncia de Dwight Eisenhower acerca do complexo militar-industrial -, Johnson desvela suas raízes no passado remoto. De volta ao presente, ele mapeia a expansão imperial das bases militares e a vasta rede de serviços que lhes servem de apoio. Oferece um olhar arguto à nova casta de militaristas profissionais infiltrados em vários setores do governo, que classificam de “secretas” quaisquer de suas atividades, e para quem a manipulação do orçamento militar é de vital importância.

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帝国アメリカと日本武力依存の構造チャルマーズ・ジョンソン

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