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Edwin O. Reischauer

1910 - 1990

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Edwin Oldfather Reischauer ( RYSHE-ow-ər; October 15, 1910 – September 1, 1990) 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 Korea, in 1939 he developed the McCune–Reischauer romanization of the Korean language. Reischauer became involved in helping create US policy toward East Asia during and after World War II. President John F. Kennedy appointed Reischauer as the United States Ambassador to Japan, where he served from 1961 to 1966. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edwin O. Reischauer is the 325th most popular historian (down from 311th in 2019), the 1,073rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,028th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Edwin O. Reischauer ranks 325 out of 561. Before him are Ludwig von Pastor, Walter Burkert, Ziya Bunyadov, Max Jakob Friedländer, Ibn 'Idhari, and Georg Gottfried Gervinus. After him are Stepanos Asoghik, Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, Ghazar Parpetsi, Al-Nuwayri, Johannes Meursius, and A. J. P. Taylor.

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Among people born in 1910, Edwin O. Reischauer ranks 193. Before him are Ángel Sanz Briz, Otto Andersson, Else Alfelt, Francisco Coloane, Elmar Klos, and Maxim Munzuk. After him are László Lékai, Cao Yu, Gunter d'Alquen, Ram Manohar Lohia, Robert Cummings, and Adoniran Barbosa. Among people deceased in 1990, Edwin O. Reischauer ranks 150. Before him are Otto E. Neugebauer, Rocky Graziano, Gerald Bull, Mario Pizziolo, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, and Alfred Sauvy. After him are Robert Cummings, Sabicas, Merab Mamardashvili, Marie-Dominique Chenu, Aleksandra Chudina, and Armand Hammer.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Edwin O. Reischauer ranks 1,073 out of 6,245. Before him are Mitsuru Komaeda (1950), Tetsuya Chiba (1939), Ryōtarō Shiba (1923), Hiroyuki Sakashita (1959), Abe Masahiro (1819), and Rentarō Mikuni (1923). After him are Hiroshi Ochiai (1946), Morihiro Saito (1928), Ninomiya Sontoku (1787), Chieko Baisho (1941), Shiho Kaneda (1965), and Toshihiko Okimune (1959).

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Among HISTORIANS In Japan

Among historians born in Japan, Edwin O. Reischauer ranks 1. 

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