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By Kathy Arnold: Saying that Chalmers Johnson was a scholar would be a gross understatement; what he really was, was an iconic figure in the political economy in the eastern parts of Asia. However, influence towards the field of political economy shall be restricted to only as much as at the ripe age of 79, Chalmers Johnson is not with all of us any longer.
The news of his demise was announced by his wife Sheila K. Johnson, who is a reputable anthropologist in her own right. She said that her husband had several long standing complexities which had come as a result of his chronic ailment of rheumatoid arthritis.
On Saturday, the great man was put out of his misery once and for all at his residence by the almighty himself. The iconic scholar had been an educator at the California University campuses in Berkeley and San Diego. He dedicated a whole thirty years of his life towards the teaching at the university which came to a close in the year 1992.
Besides that he was also a genius as a writer whose writings made China reevaluate its historic revolution and Japan it’s, what they like to call, economic miracle. Chalmers himself studied at the Berkeley campus of the University of California and went on to have a storied career in teaching in the same organization.
After his recluse from his university job, Johnson had founded a non-profit oriented foundation 16 years ago which he called the Japan Policy Research Institute. The institute then went on to find a new home and is presently a part of the Pacific Rim Center of the University of San Francisco.
Besides his teachings, his writings were also among the talks in the socio-economic circles of the world. His dissertation was his first published manuscript and he didn’t have to wait beyond that in order to be recognized as a great economic mind.
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