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William L. Brooks
William L. Brooks has been an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) since 2010, after retiring from the U.S. Department of State. For 15 years, he served as head of Embassy Tokyo’s media analysis and translation unit, responsible for analyzing the impact of Japanese media trends on U.S. interests. He had two earlier postings to Embassy Tokyo’s economic section and also served as a senior research analyst at the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research. He has a doctorate from Columbia University and taught history at the university level including SAIS before entering government service. He has also taught in South Korea and Japan. Most recent monographs: The Politics of the Futenma Base Issue in Okinawa: Relocation Negotiations in 1995-97, 2005-2006 (SAIS, 2010), Cracks in the Alliance (SAIS, 2011), and The Politics of Trade Negotiations, TPP (SAIS, 2015). He has published numerous articles on such subjects as the Japanese media, official development assistance, Japanese politics, trade policy, and U.S.-Japan alliance relations. He edits the annual SAIS yearbook: U.S.-Japan Relations in Global Context. He carried out intensive research in Japan in 2016 under a Japan Foundation-CGP grant in preparation for a class he taught that fall at SAIS on Japan’s demographically-driven healthcare crisis. Dr. Brooks has also translated seven published books from Japanese and is working on an eighth. His current research project is on the policy-making process in Japan.