Takao Iwami | |
Birth Date: | 6 October 1935 |
Birth Place: | Dalian, Kwantung Leased Territory (present-day People's Republic of China, Dalian) |
Death Place: | Shinjuku, Tokyo |
Education: | Kyoto University's Law Department |
Occupation: | political pundit, journalist |
Spouse: | Masako |
Children: | Ichita (son), Daizo (son) |
Nationality: | Japanese |
Years Active: | 1958 - 2013 |
was a Japanese political pundit and journalist.
Born in Dalian, he was brought up in Hōfu, Yamaguchi Prefecture. After graduating from Kyoto University's Law Department, he joined the Mainichi Shimbun in 1958, where he held several posts, among them editor-in-chief of the weekly magazine Sunday Mainichi, and, after his retirement in 2007, special advisor (since 2012).[1]
He died on January 18, 2014, of pneumonia, after battling liver cancer for some time.[1] [2]