Yukio Okamoto, a diplomatic analyst who was also an adviser to Japanese prime ministers, died on April 24 of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus, a company he had headed said Friday. He was 74.
Okamoto spent more than 20 years as a Foreign Ministry official, being posted at Paris, Cairo and Washington, before establishing Okamoto Associates Inc., a political and economic consultancy.
He also taught at Ritsumeikan University and was a senior research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for International Studies.
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