ERIC JOHNSTON
Japan-based
Journalist

ARTICLES/SPEECHES

A selection of my newspaper, magazine, and on-line journal articles, as well as PowerPoint presentations, in English and Japanese, used in speeches. NOTE: PowerPoint presentations are on SlideShare.

  • The Japan Times

    		 

    The Japan Times turned 120 in 2017, and I celebrated 20 years at the paper.

  • SPEECHES

    		 

    Below is the ink to most of my PowerPoint presentations on Slideshare. These are speeches, in English and Japanese, I've given in Japan and abroad to universities, NGOs, and business groups.

  • Writers In Kyoto

    		 

    Homepage of Writers in Kyoto, a group of Kyoto-based foreign and Japanese fiction and nonfiction writers.

  • Japan Focus

    		 

    Japan Focus publishes the Asia-Pacific Journal, a peer-reviewed online magazine about Japan and Asia. For dedicated Japanophiles only!

  • Japan Policy Research Institute

    		 

    Founded by the late Japan and Asia expert Chalmers Johnson, I was very honored to have been asked to contribute what was one of the first-ever English studies of the abducation of Japanese nationals by North Korea.

  • Older Newspaper Work (USA Today/The Guardian)

    		 

    Did a few stories for USA Today a long time ago.

  • Fresh Currents

    		 

    In 2012, just over a year after the earthquake, tsunami, and triple meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, I edited a book on Japan's attempts to get out of nuclear power and into renewables.

  • No. 1 Shimbun

    		 

    Magazine of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan

  • Debito.org

    		 

    Website of noted human rights activists Debito Arudo, who graciously let me vent my spleen a few times.