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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