Former University of Tokyo president Kato dies

Former University of Tokyo president Kato dies

TOKYO, Japan - Ichiro Kato (file photo), an eminent Civil Code scholar who served as president of the University of Tokyo during the turbulent days of student unrest in the late 1960s, died of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital on Nov. 11. He was 86.

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