Gregory Clark (born 19 May 1936) is a British-Australian diplomat, journalist, author and educator resident in Japan since 1976.
Biography
Clark was born in Cambridge, England, where his father
Colin Clark was a statistician who worked with
John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes ( ; 5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946), was an English economist and philosopher whose ideas fundamentally changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments. Originall ...
at the
University of Cambridge
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. The family moved to Australia in 1938 and Clark grew up there. He enrolled in the
University of Oxford
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(Brasenose College) at the age of sixteen.
After graduating in Geography from Oxford, he joined the Australian foreign service in 1956, with which he was stationed in Hong Kong and Moscow in the early 1960s: he left the foreign service in 1965 due to his opposition to the
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (1 November 1955 – 30 April 1975) was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) and their allies. North Vietnam w ...
, after having become proficient in Chinese and Russian.
He came to Japan for the first time in 1967 as a doctoral student at
Australian National University
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. In 1969, he became Tokyo bureau chief for ''
The Australian
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'' newspaper and in 1975 was appointed consultant to the Policy Coordination Unit in the Australian Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.
In 1976, he was made a professor of economics and comparative culture at
Sophia University in Tokyo and served as president of
Tama University from 1995 to 2001. He later served as vice president of
Akita International University. Clark is a regular contributor to ''
The Japan Times
''The Japan Times'' is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper. It is published by , a subsidiary of News2u Holdings, Inc. It is headquartered in the in Kioicho, Chiyoda, Tokyo.
History
''The Japan Times'' was launched by ...
'' and is also active in farming and land development in the
Bōsō Peninsula of
Chiba Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Chiba Prefecture has a population of 6,278,060 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Chiba Prefecture borders Ibaraki Prefecture to the north, Saitama ...
.
He has served on more than twenty official policy-making committees in Japan. Clark believes that there was no violence perpetrated against Chinese students during the
Tiananmen Square protest in Beijing in 1989.
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External links
Website''Japan Times'' contributions
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1936 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Australian diplomats
Australian expatriates in Japan
Australian journalists
Australian male journalists
British expatriates in Australia
British expatriates in Japan
British male journalists
Writers from Cambridge
Quadrant (magazine) people