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Chalmers Johnson's Legacy at UC San Diego

11/22/2010
Rex Graham, UCSD News

Chalmers Johnson, an internationally prominent scholar on Japan and international relations and an emeritus professor at UC San Diego’s School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS), died Saturday, Nov. 20 at his home near San Diego. He was 79. He is survived by his wife, Sheila Johnson, an international expert on women and aging in Japan.

Johnson was a faculty member at UC Berkeley from 1962 to 1988, when he joined UC San Diego as a professor at IR/PS. With newly appointed Professor Masao Miyohsi in the Department of Literature and John Dower in the History Department, Johnson helped develop UC San Diego’s Japanese Studies program.

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