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Griff Marton '75 was wounded on patrol in Vietnam and spent three months recovering in a Japanese hospital. He wanted to study Japanese foreign relations and felt that the only scholar who had anything worthwhile to say on the subject was Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor...
...task force's mission was an odd one--the professors, John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History, Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, and Ezra Vogel, professor of Sociology, among them, were told to fend for themselves. They cultivated their Far East contacts and encouraged Japanese businessmen and government officials to invest in Harvard. "We must rely on alumni and business contacts--we professors are not businessmen ourselves," Fair bank recalls today...
...academic team had enough ties to reel in the biggest companies--Nissan, Toyoto and Mitsubishi (a Japanese import-export firm)--despite the fact that none of these grants were tax-exempt in Japan. And the links Reischauer forged as ambassador to Japan in the 1960s figured significantly in the Japanese government's presentation last year of $1 million to Harvard to support Japanese studies...
...question of initiation on the part of the Japanese corporations," Olney says of the beginning of corporation gifts to Harvard. "They saw the opportunities before American corporations." The industries were particularly responsive, Olney says, to Reischauer's speeches about mutual understanding and the need for corporations to establish a greater awareness about the countries with which they do business...
Guido Goldman '59, executive director of the Center for European Studies and lecturer on Government, is the University's Reischauer for Europe. Goldman was mostly responsible for landing the $2 million grant from the Alfred Krupp Foundation that established a chair and a graduate fellowship in social sciences: he was instrumental in the negotiating of a grant for $930,000 from the German government to study Germany and Europe; and, he got a $124,000 Volkswagen grant for European studies. But Goldman sees more future in cultivating American corporations' dealings with Europe. The largest European foundations have an average income...