Education

After the Second World War, Bergamini attended Dartmouth College until 1949, winning the Peter Grimes prize. Later, he traveled to England and spent two years as a Rhodes Scholar at Merton College, Oxford. Bergamini attributed his scholastic success to a Japanese guard in his camp, who disobeyed orders to allow the interned children access to schoolbooks. Following the Japanese tradition of education, the guard assisted the children in obtaining school supplies. The result was that all of the children in the camp stayed on target with their education, with two even gaining a year.

Career

Bergamini rose to become a contributing editor for Life magazine, where he authored several popular science books. Upon retirement in 1961, he started working as a freelancer, and is known for writing about the Social Troubles Institute in 1920s Japan. Bergamini wrote on the Japanese think tanks dedicated to planning imperial conquest of the Asian mainland, and the political implications thereof. In Japan's Imperial Conspiracy, Bergamini examines the role of Crown Prince Hirohito in the execution of Japan's Imperial conquest, and his role in postwar Japanese society.