Word: genro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Premature Genro. Almost all of Ed Reischauer's life has been a preparation for his present task. He is the son of a Presbyterian missionary who taught philosophy for 25 years at Tokyo's big Meiji Gakuin University and, with his wife, founded Japan's first school for deaf-mutes. Asked why he did not become a missionary, Reischauer grins...
...that supports exchange fellowships and other academic programs in Asia (Reischauer had been its director since 1956). In 1931, at a time when few Americans were interested in Oriental studies, Reischauer was the only student taking Harvard's Chinese classics course, proudly calls himself "sort of a premature genro [elder statesman]." At Harvard he was famed for his basic course in Asian history, affectionately known as "Rice Paddies...