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...Edwin O. Reischauer, United States Ambassador to Japan, and former professor of Japanese History, will resume teaching duties at Harvard next year according to an article in yesterday's Washington Post. The information was attributed to undisclosed state department sources...
...Reischauer was appointed ambassador in 1961 by President Kennedy...
...article also named U. Alexis Johnson, deputy Under Secretary of State for political affairs, as Reischauer's successor in Tokyo...
...Reischauer in Tokyo declined to comment directly on the proposed change. He told a newsmen at a diplomatic reception, however, that he always wanted to return to academic life...
President Pusey and Dean Ford said they knew nothing about Reischauer's return. But Dean Ford added that it has always been generally known that Reischauer was welcome at Harvard whenever he wanted to return, and that "Harvard would rather have him here than anywhere else...