Ezra Vogel, Harvard scholar who bridged U.S. and East Asia, dies at 90 Harrison Smith Ezra F. Vogel, a Harvard professor who served as a bridge between East Asia and the United States, examining the rise of two superpowers Japan and China in books that drew wide acclaim on both sides of the Pacific, died Dec. 20 at a hospital in Cambridge, Mass. He was 90. The cause was complications from colon cancer surgery, said his son Steven K. Vogel, a political scientist and Japan scholar at the University of California at Berkeley. Though trained as a sociologist, Dr. Vogel drew on fields including history, psychology and anthropology, interviewing families, executives and top political officials in Japan and China. After decades in which China was largely closed off to the West, he was part of the first generation of American scholars to travel across the country, studying its society in the years after Mao Zedong’s death in 1976. In a tribute, the Foreign
Ezra Vogel, influential scholar of Japan and China, dies at 90
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Harvard prof. Ezra Vogel, author of Japan as Number One, dies at 90
Ezra Vogel, a leading American expert on Japan, China and Asia broadly, and professor emeritus at Harvard University, died of complications from surgery on Sunday in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his family said. He was 90.
The professor of social science was widely known for his 1979 book Japan as Number One: Lessons for America, which became a best seller in Japan. Ezra Vogel, professor emeritus at Harvard University, was interviewed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Oct. 2, 2019. Specializing in social sciences, he has authored many books on East Asia, including Japan and China. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Dec 21, 2020
Ezra F. Vogel, 90, one of the country’s leading experts on East Asia through a career that spanned six decades, passed away in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sunday due to complications from surgery.
Vogel studied an extraordinary range of substantive topics in multiple countries from the perspectives of various academic disciplines, retooling himself as a scholar many times over in his academic career.
He was originally trained as a sociologist studying the family in the United States. He devoted two years to language study and field research in Japan in 1958-60, emerging as a specialist on Japanese society. He then embarked on Chinese-language study in the 1960s, before it was possible to travel to mainland China, and became an accomplished scholar of Chinese society as well.
Ezra Vogel, a famed U.S. expert on Japan and professor emeritus at Harvard University, dies at 90. The photo was taken in Washington in 2018. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
NEW YORK Famed Japanologist and author Ezra Vogel, a professor emeritus at Harvard University, died at a hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Dec. 20. He was 90.
Vogel wrote the provocative best-selling book “Japan as Number One,” published in 1979, which had a major impact on Americans view of Japan.
Christina Davis, director of the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at Harvard University, announced his death.
She said that Vogel recently underwent an operation but had a poor prognosis and passed away.
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