Word: reischauer
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...Reischauer also served in the State Department's bureau of Far Eastern affairs before returning to Harvard. From 1956 to 1961 he served as professor of Far Eastern History and was director of the East Asian Research Center...
...Reischauer's two-year leave of absence from the University would have expired March 16. He did not apply for an extension of the leave, and his resignation had been expected for several months...
...there is general agreement among his colleagues that there will always be a professorship of Japanese History open to Reischauer should he ever choose to return...
Before his appointment, Reischauer was a strong critic of American policy in the Far East. In Wanted: An Asian Policy (1955) he called developments in U.S.-Asian relations "profoundly disturbing and extremely dangerous," and called for several changes in American policy, including recognition of Communist China...
...Reischauer was born in Tokyo and has spent more than 20 years in Asia. He has written several studies of Japanese history and literature, and has translated a number of Japanese works...