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...journalists, university professors, industrialists, and sees more of opposition leaders and intellectuals than his predecessor. Three months ago, a delegation of robed Buddhist monks came to protest against U.S. nuclear tests. Reischauer discoursed knowledgeably on Buddhism and the bomb in Japanese, explained U.S. reasons for testing, and sent them home wreathed in smiles...
...scholar who is admiringly called "Bunka Taishi," the cultural ambassador, Ed Reischauer has an entrée to Japanese universities that is jealously denied other foreign officials. In every campus appearance he has scrupulously avoided propaganda, but manages nonetheless to get in some pertinent points. In a discussion of "Japanese History as Viewed from Abroad," he gracefully recalled the oft-forgotten fact that Japan had a thriving parliamentary tradition for 80 years before it was choked by the militarists in the '30s. The between-the-lines message was to Japanese radicals who are impatient with the legal niceties...
Premature Genro. Almost all of Ed Reischauer's life has been a preparation for his present task. He is the son of a Presbyterian missionary who taught philosophy for 25 years at Tokyo's big Meiji Gakuin University and, with his wife, founded Japan's first school for deaf-mutes. Asked why he did not become a missionary, Reischauer grins...
...Reischauer spent most of his childhood in Tokyo, graduated from Oberlin ('31), and after his M.A. in history at Harvard spent six years studying and touring as a fellow of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, an independent foundation that supports exchange fellowships and other academic programs in Asia (Reischauer had been its director since 1956). In 1931, at a time when few Americans were interested in Oriental studies, Reischauer was the only student taking Harvard's Chinese classics course, proudly calls himself "sort of a premature genro [elder statesman]." At Harvard he was famed for his basic course...
...wife Haru has an East-meets-West background that complements Reischauer's. Her mother was born in the U.S., where Haru's grandfather lived for 60 years and made his fortune as a silk trader. On her father's side, she is the granddaughter of Prince Masayoshi Matsukata, who was twice Prime Minister (1891-92, 1896-97). After attending Principia College in Elsah, Ill., Haru returned to Japan, after the war became a correspondent for U.S. magazines...