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apanese Government yesterday ap Edwin O. Reischauer, director of rvard-Yenching Institute and Pro of Japanese History, as United Ambassador. Reischauer leaves to Washington to address the War and confer with Under-Secretary A. Bowles. After about a month he will proceed to Japan...
uick acceptance by the Japanese ed Reischauer. He termed it the answer to the nomination of a bassador to Japan that he could Reischauer believes this unprece step demonstrates that Japan is o welcome him to his new post. ing his regrets at leaving the Uni he stated, "I definitely will re teach." Albert M. Craig, assistant r of History, will deliver...
...Tokyo, conservative opposition mounted against the choice of brainy but blunt Edwin O. Reischauer, a Japanese-born Harvard professor with a Japanese wife. Japan's Ambassador to the U.S., Koichiro Asakai, summoned Japanese correspondents in Washington, asked them such leading questions as "Do you believe we should accept an ambassador who is not a full and true American?" Outgoing U.S. Ambassador Douglas Mac Arthur II also opposes Reischauer, who had charged that MacArthur's embassy was guilty of a "shocking misestimate of the situation" leading up to last spring's Japanese riots. After MacArthur invited...
...Edwin Oldfather Reischauer, 50, is set to take over the embassy in Tokyo. Another Harvardman, Reischauer was born in Japan, graduated from Oberlin, received his Ph.D. from Harvard, where he is now director of the Center for East Asian Studies. Both scholar and diplomat, Reischauer spent considerable time in Japan, served on the State Department's Far Eastern desk in the hectic years of Asian upheaval after World War II, published more than half a dozen books on the Orient, has been an advocate of U.S. recognition of Communist China and a critic of American "overemphasis" on military power...
Nevertheless the article lists ex-Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida among those who fear Reischauer's appointment. It explains that conservatives are worried that his appointment will give aid and comfort to pro-Communist leftwing intellectuals opposed to the United States-Japan security pact...