C. Douglas Lummis is a writer, former professor at Tsuda College in Tokyo[1] and former U.S. Marine.[2]

Life

Lummis was born in 1936 in San Francisco. He attended UC Berkeley on a Navy ROTC contract, and later did three years active duty in the Marines - the last year in Okinawa.[3] He retired from teaching at Tsuda College in 2000.[3]

Lummis' writings - many of which concern Japan's relationship to the United States - are extremely critical of US foreign policy.[2][4] His works include the books Radical Democracy, A New Look at The Chrysanthemum and the Sword and Japan's Radical Constitution.[3] He has also published numerous pieces in journals such as The Nation[5] and Japan Focus.[2]

Critical reception

Susan Sontag has called Lummis "one of the most thoughtful, honorable, and relevant intellectuals writing about democratic practice anywhere in the world,"[3] while Karel van Wolferen has referred to him as an "eminent observer of the American-Japanese vassalage relationship."[4]

Lummis' ideas have been criticized by Francis Fukuyama and others in Foreign Affairs and other journals.[6]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ Sung-won Suh. Book Review Global Asia: A Journal of the East Asia Foundation, Fall, 2010
  2. ^ a b c Japan Focus: Douglas Lummis japanfocus.org
  3. ^ a b c d Radical Democracy book ecobooks.com
  4. ^ a b Karel van Wolferen. "The most monstrous lie of the twenty-first century" karelvanwolferen.com, jottings, articles, books, 19 Sep. 2011
  5. ^ Author Bios: C. Douglas Lummis thenation.com
  6. ^ Francis Fukuyama. "Radical Democracy, C. Douglas Lummis" Foreign Affairs, September/October, 1996
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