HONG KONG -- Ezra Vogel, a top American scholar on Asian affairs, has died at the age of 90, according to a statement from the Fairbank Center of Chinese Studies at Harvard University on Sunday.
Vogel, a professor emeritus at Harvard, was one of the most influential academic voices on modern Japan and China in recent decades. His son, Steven Vogel, a political-science professor at the University of California, Berkeley, said in a tweet that the death was the result of complications after surgery. He added that his father was "completely healthy a week ago."
