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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

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