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...bleak future of China drew comment last week from a distinguished scholar who for five years has been stationed at Mao's doorstep: U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer. Retiring from his post last week, the 55-year-old Tokyo-born Harvard professor, who has studied in China and written about the country, took the occasion to offer his own assessment of trends on the mainland...
Speaking to the Tokyo press, Reischauer described Mao's mainland as country," "fundamentally a contended weak that and Peking's real backward power is too often exaggerated. In coming decades, he predicted, it will be industrialized and democratic Japan - not China - that will be the source of "in spiration" to other Asian lands. Added Reischauer: "Communist China's in fluence is an influence by fear. I am certain that Japan's positive influence will prove infinitely more important." In fact, he suggested, "in the long run Communist China will be one of the countries influenced...
...Natural Partners." What seemed to concern the ambassador most was Ja pan's attitude toward U.S. efforts to counter Communism in Viet Nam. Said Reischauer: "This is not a war started by us, but by those who believe in world revolution and direct violence. We are being much truer to ideals that the Japanese people profess than you are yourselves. I don't know why Japanese indignation is not turned toward Hanoi. Why is it turned toward...
...long run, Reischauer suggested, relations between the U.S. and Japan, despite "cultural differences," may some day be as intimate as those between the U.S. and Britain. As "the only two great industrial nations facing the Pacific side of the world" the U.S. and Japan are "natural and essential partners." In a rare eulogy, a spokesman for the Japanese press rose to thank Reischauer for "frankness and cooperation." Wrote Shigeharu Matsumoto, one of the country's leading political commentators: "No other ambassador ever accredited to Tokyo will be missed here as sincerely. He was a very special ambassador...
...Division. Picked to succeed Reischauer was U. (for Ural)* Alexis Johnson, 57, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and him self an old Asia hand. Also fluent in Japanese, Kansas-born Johnson started his career as an embassy language officer in Tokyo in 1935; on Pearl Harbor Day, as a vice consul in Japanese-controlled Manchuria, he was interned. Exchanged in 1942, he later joined General Douglas MacArthur's Tokyo staff. More recently, Johnson was deputy ambassador in Saigon before returning to Washington last year...