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...good cellar are classic assets, nowadays the only essential for diplomatic success, as the State Department's Loy Henderson insisted, is "political sensitivity-without it a Ph.D. is useless. With it a high school student is invaluable." Messrs. Kennan, Reischauer and Galbraith will not win the cold war by setting fine tables. But they have personable wives, and. above all, they possess political sensitivity to the highest degree...
...Yugoslavia, Kennan is trying to prod an ideologically hostile country toward genuine neutrality; in Japan. Ed Reischauer has the opposite task: he must keep an essentially friendly country from moving toward neutrality-or worse. Neutralism, Reischauer believes, is a more potent threat in Japan than Washington realizes. Though the ruling Liberal-Democratic Party has a safe two-thirds majority in the Diet, it commands only about 60% of the popular vote. If this margin swings to the solidly neutralist opposition, the U.S.-Japanese alliance would almost certainly be scrapped, and, argues Reischauer, "neutralism, if not open pro-Communism, would...
...result of breakneck political and economic progress, says Reischauer, Japan has become "the world's fastest-changing society," no longer has any "central core of ideals on which all groups can agree." The result: "A huge current of discontent within Japanese society, of frustration with present trends, and a strong sense of alienation from the existing order." Visiting Japan in 1960, Reischauer was "shocked" by the savagery that erupted in the May and June riots against the U.S.-Japanese security treaty. In a magazine article a few months later, he accused Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II of making a "shocking...
...Today "Reischauer-san" is something of a hero in Japan. He and his Japanese-born wife (his second; his first wife died in 1955) are treated by Tokyo crowds like movie stars or sumo champions. As the first U.S. ambassador in Japan to speak, read and write the language, he is constantly on TV. When he arrived, one paper warned local politicians that the new ambassador would know exactly what they are up to, headlined: THE MAN WHO KNOWS TOO MUCH ABOUT JAPAN...
Pertinent Points. To the Japanese, gentle Ed Reischauer has "low posture,'' the degree of humility that permits frankness. He eagerly talks to labor-union leaders...