#  Akira Iriye 

 

 



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 email <airiye@fas.harvard.edu> 

 laptop\_windows [Reischauer Institute Profile](http://rijs.fas.harvard.edu/people/faculty/a_iriye.php) 

 

 



 

Akira Iriye, a Harvard University professor emeritus and a leading scholar on the history of international relations, died on Jan. 27. He was 91.

After earning his doctorate from Harvard in 1961, Iriye began a distinguished academic career in the United States, holding professorships at the University of Chicago and Harvard, among other institutions.

He became a towering figure in his field, serving as president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in 1978. In 1988, he became the first Japanese person elected president of the American Historical Association. ([Read more](https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/16318150))

[Harvard Memorial Minutes](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/05/akira-iriye-91/)



 

 

 





 

 

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