Kent E. Calder is director of the Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies, a faculty member at the university's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C., and served as special adviser to the U.S. ambassador to Japan from 1997 to 2001. His books include "Pacific Defense: Arms, Energy, and America's Future in Asia" (William Morrow), "Strategic Capitalism" (Princeton), and "Crisis and Compensation" (Princeton).