Word: reischauer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of Japan's corporate executives are amused at the way they keep running into each other these days. They meet at fund-raising luncheons where their unlikely hosts are a succession of scholars and officials from American universities. Harvard's Far Eastern Specialist Edwin O. Reischauer (Beyond Vietnam: The United States and Asia) was back in Japan recently for the third time in five months, "to thank them for what they have done and to ask them for more...
...Reischauer said yesterday that he was not sure of the effect his trip might have on Kim's departure, but "it might help to push things towards an early release...
...abduction of Kim led to accusations by both political parties in Japan that the South Korean Central Intelligence Agency was involved. Reischauer said that the Japanese government applied tremendous pressure to the Koreans to release Kim from house arrest...
...still plans to come to Harvard but as long as he remains in Korea, he is in grave physical danger," Reischauer said...
...Reischauer described Kim's trip to Harvard as an opportunity "to keep intellectually alive for the time when a democratic movement becomes possible again in Korea...