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Edwin Oldfather Reischauer (October 15, 1910–September 1, 1990) was Tokyo-born U.S. ambassador to Japan (1961–66) and the co-developer, with George M. McCune, of the McCune-Reischauer romanization of Korean. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... October 15 is the 288th day of the year (289th in Leap years). ... 1910 in topic: Arts Architecture- Art- Film- Literature- Music- Television Science and technology Aviation- Rail transport- Radio- Science Other topics Australia- Canada- Ireland- South Africa- Sport Births- Deaths Lists of leaders: State leaders - Religious leaders 1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years). ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The modern skyline of Tokyo is highly decentralized. ... ... For other uses, see Ambassador (disambiguation). ... George McAfee Mac McCune (June 16, 1908 - November 5, 1948) was co-developer, with Edwin O. Reischauer, of the McCune-Reischauer romanization of Korean. ... McCune-Reischauer is one of the two most widely used Korean language romanization systems, along with the Revised Romanization of Korean, which replaced (a modified) McCune-Reischauer as the official romanization system in South Korea in 2000. ...

He graduated with a B.A. from Oberlin in 1931 and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1939. Most of his teaching career was spent at Harvard, where he was the director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute and chairman of the Department of Far Eastern Languages. At Harvard, he was the founder of the Japan Institute, which was renamed the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies in 1985 in his honor. A Bachelor of Arts (B.A. or A.B.) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or program in the arts and/or sciences. ... Students passing through the Oberlin Memorial Arch in front of Peters Hall on the Oberlin College campus Oberlin College is a small liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio. ... 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

During World War II, he was the Japan expert for the US Army Intelligence Service, where he is said to have prevented the bombing of Kyoto during the war, as recounted by Robert Jungk in Brighter Than a Thousand Suns: A personal history of the atomic scientists, (NY: Harcourt Brace, 1958) page 178: World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that engulfed much of the globe... Robert Jungk (1913-1994) was an Austrian writer and journalist who wrote mostly on issues relating to nuclear weapons. ...

"On the short list of targets for the atom bomb, in addition to Hiroshima, Kokura and Nigata, was the Japanese city of temples, Kyoto. When the expert on Japan, Professor Edwin O. Reischauer, heard this terrible news, he rushed into the office of his chief, Major Alfred MacCormack, in a department of the Army Intelligence Service. The shock caused him to burst into tears. MacCormack, a cultivated and humane New York lawyer, thereupon managed to persuade Secretary of War Stimson to reprieve Kyoto and have it crossed off the black list."

Reischauer refuted it in his book My Life Between Japan And America, (NY: Harper & Row, 1986) page. 101: This page is about the city Kyoto. ... Henry L. Stimson Henry Lewis Stimson (September 21, 1867 – October 20, 1950) was an American statesman, who served as Secretary of War, Governor-General of the Philippines, and Secretary of State at various times. ...

"I probably would have done this if I had ever had the opportunity, but there is not a word of truth to it. As has been amply proved by my friend Otis Cary of Doshisha in Kyoto, the only person deserving credit for saving Kyoto from destruction is Henry L. Stimson, the Secretary of War at the time, who had known and admired Kyoto ever since his honeymoon there several decades earlier."

See also

• List of Korea-related topics
• Reference: Minutes of the second meeting of the Target Committee Los Alamos, May 10-11, 1945

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Bibliography (partial)

• The romanization of the Korean language, based upon its phonetic structure, G. M. McCune and E. O. Reischauer, 1939
• Elementary Japanese for university students, 1942 with Elisseeff, Serge
• Ennin's diary : the record of a pilgrimage to China in search of the law, translated from the Chinese by Edwin O. Reischauer. Ronald Press 1955
• Wanted: an Asian policy, 1955
• Japan, Past and Present, Knopf 1956
• The United States and Japan, Viking, 1957
• Our Asian Frontiers of knowledge, 1958
• East Asia, the modern transformation. Houghton Mifflin, 1965 with JK Fairbank, AM Craig
• A history of East Asian civilization, 1965
• Beyond Vietnam: the United States and Asia, Vintage, 1968
• East Asia: The great tradition, [by] Edwin O. Reischauer [and] John K. Fairbank. 1960
• A new look at modern history, Hara Shobo, 1972
• Translations from early Japanese literature, Edwin O. Reischauer and Joseph K. Yamagiwa. Harvard 1972
• Toward the 21st century: education for a changing world, Knopf 1973
• The Japanese, Belknap Press, 1977
• The United States and Japan in 1986 : can the partnership work?, Forward by ER
• My life between Japan and America, Harper and Row, 1986
• The Japanese today : change and continuity, Charles E. Tuttle Co, 1988
• Nihon no kokusaika : Raishaw? Hakushi to no taiwa = The internationalization of Japan : conversations with Dr. Reischauer, Bungei Shunju, 1989
• Japan, tradition and transformation, Houghton Mifflin, 1989
• Japan : the story of a nation, McGraw-Hill 1990
• Study of Dr. Edwin O. Reischauer, by Shoji Goto , Keibunsha 1991