Word: reischauer
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...nations engage in ventures ranging from joint development of a $6.5 billion jet fighter known as the FSX to intelligence gathering on North Korean radicals in advance of the Seoul Olympics. "There will continue to be a tremendous mutual dependence between the U.S. and Japan," says Historian Edwin Reischauer, author of The Japanese Today and former U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo. "If they turned uncooperative it would be a disaster for us, but it would also be a disaster for them...
Shohei Imamura, director of "The Ballad of Narayama" and other award-winning films, arrived at Harvard on Tuesday for a 15-day visit under the auspices of the film institute, in cooperation with the Japan Foundation of New York and Harvard's Reischauer Institute of Japanese studies...
...Sung, 75, to launch a military adventure that could draw the U.S. into another Asian war. Though U.S. leverage in South Korea is limited, its stake in the country's future is considerable. Writing in the New York Times last November, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer and Edward J. Baker, a Harvard Asian-affairs specialist, declared, "Next to the Middle East, South Korea is probably the part of the world where American interests and world peace are most threatened...
...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...
Johns Hopkins officials said the Reischauer center would be established under a $5 million endowment and would have the specific goal of training diplomats and policy makers by teaching them history, language economics, and politics of Japan and several other Southeast Asian nations...