Edwin O. Reischauer, American scholar and diplomat (born 1910)

Edwin O. Reischauer

American diplomat, educator, and professor (1910–1990)

Edwin Oldfather Reischauer was an American diplomat, educator, and professor at Harvard University. Born in Tokyo to American educational missionaries, he became a leading scholar of the history and culture of Japan and East Asia. Together with George M. McCune, a scholar of…