Word: koichiro
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...Tokyo, conservative opposition mounted against the choice of brainy but blunt Edwin O. Reischauer, a Japanese-born Harvard professor with a Japanese wife. Japan's Ambassador to the U.S., Koichiro Asakai, summoned Japanese correspondents in Washington, asked them such leading questions as "Do you believe we should accept an ambassador who is not a full and true American?" Outgoing U.S. Ambassador Douglas Mac Arthur II also opposes Reischauer, who had charged that MacArthur's embassy was guilty of a "shocking misestimate of the situation" leading up to last spring's Japanese riots. After MacArthur invited...