Benjamin Fulford (born 1961) is a journalist and author of Canadian descent living in Japan. He has described himself as being a Polish-Jew. From 1998 until 2005 he was the Asian Bureau chief forForbes magazine.   He naturalized to Japanese citizenship in 2007. He has also written for the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, the South China Morning Post and a variety of other high profile publications.  His popularity soared on the internet after he managed to conduct an interview with the highly elusive David Rockefeller in November 2007.

In recent times, he has given a number of interviews to conspiracy theorists, and therein claimed that:

• AIDS and SARS are bio-engineered weapons designed to reduce the Asian population.
• A Chinese secret society with a membership of 6 million, including 1.8 million gangsters and 100,000 professional assassins has issued an ultimatum to the Illuminati, warning them that if they persist with their plan to depopulate the earth, they will be stopped. The society has created an alliance joining Russia, China, India, South America, ASEAN, the free Muslim nations and Africa that is united in stopping the illuminati. 
• More recently Fulford has stated that the US have been able to alter the climate, and using high power microwave energy induce earthquakes including the Asian Tsunami, Japanese and Chinese quakes. The program he refers to is known as HAARP High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program