Word: bunka
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scholar who is admiringly called "Bunka Taishi," the cultural ambassador, Ed Reischauer has an entrée to Japanese universities that is jealously denied other foreign officials. In every campus appearance he has scrupulously avoided propaganda, but manages nonetheless to get in some pertinent points. In a discussion of "Japanese History as Viewed from Abroad," he gracefully recalled the oft-forgotten fact that Japan had a thriving parliamentary tradition for 80 years before it was choked by the militarists in the '30s. The between-the-lines message was to Japanese radicals who are impatient with the legal niceties...