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...Edwin O. Reischauer left the Harvard campus in 1961 to become John Kennedy's Ambassador to Japan. An eminent scholar, born in Tokyo and married to a member of a distinguished Japanese family, Reischauer seemed to epitomize the new breed of Kennedy government servants...
...five years as the American representative, Reischauer did much to improve relations between the two countries, and was instrumental in restoring a strong confidence to the war-battered Japanese. With his encouragement, the Japanese began to lose their feelings of diffidence toward America and started an economic surge which has returned them to the first rank of international prominence...
Last week, in his fifth floor corner office at the Center for Far Eastern Studies, Reischauer freely admitted that there had in fact been two Reischauers. "While I was in Japan," he said, "I used my status as a scholar to great advantage. I gave many lectures on modern Japanese history which improved my relations with the people, and then ducked embarrassing questions at news conferences by saying, 'Well, you know I'm only a professor. I'm not really qualified to answer questions like that. But if you'd like my opinion as a student of Japanese history...
...Committee has ten Faculty members acting as sponsors. They include Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, and Robert G. McCloskey, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History and Government, as well as Masters Richard T. Gill '48 and John H. Finley...
...clear majority of individuals here at Harvard--which is certainly a special community--signed the letter, other groups across the nation might be inspired to do likewise," Reischauer said yesterday...