biography
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Reischauer, Edwin O(ldfather)
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pronunciation:
[riyshower]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1910–90)
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| biography:
| US diplomat and scholar, born in Tokyo, Japan. The son of an American missionary, he was raised in Japan, then studied at Oberlin College and Harvard. An expert on Japanese language, culture, and politics, he taught at Harvard (1938–81), and collaborated with John K Fairbank on two classic textbooks, East Asia: the Great Tradition (1960) and East Asia: the Modern Transformation (1965). He became ambassador to Japan (1961–6), when Japan criticized escalating US military involvement in Vietnam, helping to restore good relations, and was an opponent of the Vietnam War, and an early advocate of restoring diplomatic relations with Communist China. |
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