William Chapman (journalist)
William Chapman (born 1930) is an American journalist. He began as a reporter in 1956, and joined The Washington Post in 1960. He was assigned by the Post to Tokyo as their bureau chief in 1977, and is the author of Inside the Philippine Revolution (1988) and Inventing Japan: The Making of a Postwar Civilization (1991).[1]
Chapman obtained a BA from DePauw University and an MA in political science from New York University.[2]
Notes
- ^ For Chapman being assigned to Tokyo in 1977, see Hess, Stephen. International News and Foreign Correspondents. Brookings Institution Press, 1996, p. 18.
- ^ Hare, Alexander Paul and Blumberg, Herbert H. Nonviolent Direct Action: American cases: Social-psychological Analyses. Corpus Books, 1968, p. 241.