John Peter died suddenly Jan. 3, 2011, of a pulmonary embolism, in Japan.
John Peter was born in Manhattan Nov. 8, 1954, and graduated from New Rochelle High School. At Princeton, his freshman roommate was Jeff Smisek. He worked as a news broadcaster at WPRB and was a member of Terrace Club. He studied Japanese language and joined the Princeton-in-Asia program. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated summa cum laude in history with a certificate in East Asian Studies.
John Peter received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1979 and subsequently moved to Tokyo as an attorney with Nagashima & Ohno. In recent years, John was a professor of international law at Nihon University Graduate School of Law and was a co-author of a textbook titled An Introduction to American Law, published in 2010.
The class officers extend condolences to John Peter’s two sons, George and Ken.