Independent Writer

1065 Kao'opulu Place
Honolulu, HI 96825

TEL: (808) 395-0511
FAX: (808) 396-4095
E-MAIL: oranhall@hawaii.rr.com

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• BUSINESS, TRADE AND ECONOMICS
  international economics; international trade; public relations
• COMMUNICATION, INFORMATION AND MEDIA
  mass media
• HISTORY
  cultural history; history of US-Japan relations; Meiji Restoration; military history; modern and contemporary history; political and diplomatic history
• POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE
  comparative politics; defense policy; defense spending; domestic politics; foreign policy and international relations; international economic policy; international public affairs; Japanese lobby in Washington, DC; leadership; military issues; political ideology; political institutions; political participation, public opinion; security policy; security relations; social and political change
• SOCIETY, CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY
  Japanese perceptions of the US; racial and psychological aspects of US-Japan relations; US perceptions of Japan

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Military Correspondent, Defense Correspondent, Energy Correspondent, Investigative Reporter, Washington Bureau, Tokyo Bureau Chief, Diplomatic Correspondent, Washington Bureau, New York Times, 1969-89; Economic Correspondent, Washington, Northeast Asia Bureau Chief, Specialist, Washington Post, 1965-69; Asia Bureau Chief, Assistant Foreign Editor, Reporter, Business Week, 1957-64; Night Editor, Editorial Director, Michigan Daily, 1955-57.

IN JAPAN: 1972-76, 1966-68, 1962-64 - employment; repeated brief trips; 1954-55 - military.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

Serving America: Prospects for the Volunteer Force (Twentieth Century Fund, 1988); To Arm a Nation: Rebuilding America's Endangered Defenses (Macmillan, 1986); Conflict and Compromise: The Dynamics of American Foreign Policy (John Day, 1973); Japan: Images and Realities (Knopf, 1969).