John Miller, a retired U.S. Foreign Service officer, died April 5, 2017, after a long illness. He was 75.
After graduating from Amherst in 1963 and earning a master’s degree from Stanford in 1966, Miller earned a Ph.D. in history from Princeton in 1975. He then had a 25-year career in the Foreign Service. He had lived in Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and Canada.
He retired in 2000 and joined the faculty of the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu. He then was the Asia chair at the National Foreign Affairs Training Center in Arlington, Va. He wrote two books, Modern East Asia — An Introductory History (2008) and American Political and Cultural Perspectives on Japan — From Perry to Obama (2014).
In his last years Miller was a volunteer lecturer on Asian history and politics at Encore Learning in Arlington, and since 2012 he was an officer of a Japanese tea ceremony association.
He is survived by his wife, Mioko, and two children.
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