Word: reischauer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professor Edwin O. Reischauer, chairman of the committee on East Asian studies, will marry Miss Haru Matsukata, a Japanese foreign correspondent whom he has known since his school days in Japan. He said that no date had been formally set but the wedding would take place within "a couple of months...
...Reischauer, 45, a well-known writer on Far Eastern affairs, is on a year's sabbatical leave and is presently staying in Japan. Miss Matsukata, 40, is the Far Eastern representative of the Saturday Evening Post and secretary of the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan...
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Professor Fairbank remained at the head of the program through its early years, stepping down from the chairmanship in 1953, and making room for his colleague, Edwin O. Reischauer, of Far Eastern Languages. With Reischauer doing scholarly research this year, James R. Hightower, associate professor of Far Eastern Languages, has taken over temporarily. According to Hightower, the program still restricts its enrollment to about 12 students a year because it could not accept more and still keep up the high standard of work that has characterized the study group...
...Reischauer himself will be taking a long look at the Far East for the next fourteen months. Under the auspices of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, he will be investigating "higher education in the area of Chinese civilization," as well as political situations in Formosa, Korea, Hong Kong, and Okinawa. "I don't know what the U.S. Government will think about someone out there poking around, but we'll see," he says. With his arms filled with typhoid shots and his smile as friendly as ever, Reischauer will against next year display his unique combination of the professor-statesman...