Word: matsukata
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that you're all living out the President's inauguration speech and deepening American-Japanese relations. You've really gotten your lights out from under the barrel." After that, there were only a few more functions: a visit to the home of Japanese Businessman Yoshishiko Matsukata, an uncle of U.S. Ambassador Reischauer's Japanese wife Haru; an embassy reception attended by Prime Minister Ikeda and hundreds of other Japanese dignitaries (Ethel wore a white lace dress-with matching hair-bows) ; a dinner given by Japanese Foreign Minister Zentaro Kosaka; and an appearance on the Japanese television...
...Haru has an East-meets-West background that complements Reischauer's. Her mother was born in the U.S., where Haru's grandfather lived for 60 years and made his fortune as a silk trader. On her father's side, she is the granddaughter of Prince Masayoshi Matsukata, who was twice Prime Minister (1891-92, 1896-97). After attending Principia College in Elsah, Ill., Haru returned to Japan, after the war became a correspondent for U.S. magazines...
...years of Asian upheaval after World War II, published more than half a dozen books on the Orient, has been an advocate of U.S. recognition of Communist China and a critic of American "overemphasis" on military power in Asia. In 1956 Widower (three children) Reischauer married Jaoanese Newswoman Haru Matsukata. granddaughter of Prince Masayoshi Matsukata, who was twice Japan's Prime Minister in the 1890s and one of the builders of modern Japan. Writing in Foreign Affairs, Reischauer was sharply critical of "the shocking misestimate of the situation" by his predecessor, Douglas MacArthur II (who will head the Belgian...