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...former ambassador to Japan and noted Far Fast expert Reischauer has long advocated more study of Japanese and other foreign cultures to improve diplomatic understanding...
...ambassador to Japan from 1961-1966, Reischauer was the first American ambassador to speak Japanese and he is widely hailed for improving relations, especially cultural with large segments of that country's society...
...insights but also provokes questions about our present political leaders. George Humphrey, Secretary of the Treasury under President Eisenhower, warns his superiors that "disaster would result from 'a military program that scorned the resources and problems of our economy'" by increasing the budget deficit. Advisors such as Edwin O. Reischauer see tragedy in the fact that the West "allowed the Indochinese nationalism to become a Communist cause." In the follies of the past we see shades of the policy of the present. Tuchman laments the failure of the world's past leaders to learn from their predecessors. The March...
...Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor Emeritus and Honorary Director of the Japan Institute, said that after a period of expansion in the 50's, interest in East Asian studies began to slack off a decade ago. He added that the trend has begun to reverse in the last few years...
University professor Edwin O. Reischauer then the American ambassador to Japan, received the news at three or four in the morning. Two hours later he was on Japanese television, "reassuring the Japanese people that nothing had changed. It was something mysterious. I think, that the whole world had this feeling of enthusiasm for this young American leader," says Reischauer...