Word: masayoshi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impose with guns their "Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere" on the helpless nations of Southeast Asia. Last week, while most of the world's eyes were trained on Europe's faltering Common Market, the Japanese were again swarming over Asia, and in Tokyo Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira was again talking of co-prosperity. Today's invaders are briefcase brigades of Japanese businessmen with funds to invest in local industries and squads of technicians offering help for every venture from building dams to making watches. In 1963 the Japanese really mean-and badly need-genuine co-prosperity...
...wife Haru has an East-meets-West background that complements Reischauer's. Her mother was born in the U.S., where Haru's grandfather lived for 60 years and made his fortune as a silk trader. On her father's side, she is the granddaughter of Prince Masayoshi Matsukata, who was twice Prime Minister (1891-92, 1896-97). After attending Principia College in Elsah, Ill., Haru returned to Japan, after the war became a correspondent for U.S. magazines...
...after World War II, published more than half a dozen books on the Orient, has been an advocate of U.S. recognition of Communist China and a critic of American "overemphasis" on military power in Asia. In 1956 Widower (three children) Reischauer married Jaoanese Newswoman Haru Matsukata. granddaughter of Prince Masayoshi Matsukata, who was twice Japan's Prime Minister in the 1890s and one of the builders of modern Japan. Writing in Foreign Affairs, Reischauer was sharply critical of "the shocking misestimate of the situation" by his predecessor, Douglas MacArthur II (who will head the Belgian embassy in his next...