Prominent Japanese political scientist Makoto Iokibe, renowned for his research on Japan's relations with the United States during postwar U.S. occupation, died of acute aortic dissection at a hospital in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on Wednesday. He was 80.
Iokibe, professor emeritus at Kobe University and a Hyogo native, earned a master's degree at Kyoto University's graduate school in 1969.
After serving as assistant professor at Hiroshima University, he became a professor at Kobe University in 1981. He also served as president of the National Defense Academy of Japan from 2006 to 2012.
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