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
A news bureau is an office for gathering or distributing news. Similar terms are used for specialized bureaus, often to indicate a geographic location or scope of coverage: a ‘Tokyo bureau’ refers to a given news operation's office in Tokyo; ' ...
in 1977, and is the author of ''Inside the Philippine Revolution'' (1988) and ''Inventing Japan: The Making of a Postwar Civilization'' (1991).
Chapman obtained a
BA from
DePauw University and an
MA in
political science from
New York University.
[Hare, Alexander Paul and Blumberg, Herbert H. ''Nonviolent Direct Action: American cases: Social-psychological Analyses''. Corpus Books, 1968, p. 241.]
Notes
1930 births
Living people
American male journalists
DePauw University alumni
New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science alumni
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