Reischauer advocated both in public and in government policy documents on the framework and attitude of U. S. policy on Japan post-World War II and during the Vietnam War and America's role in Asia.

On September 14, 1942 — three years before the end of World War II — Reischauer, then an instructor in Far Eastern languages at Harvard University, wrote the " Memorandum on Policy towards Japan " which laid out a plan on how the United States can attain its post-war objective of " winning the peace " in Asia.

A " secret " memorandum declassified in 1996 detailing the conversation among top-level U. S. military and civilian officials on July 16, 1965 in Tokyo revealed a plan put forward by Reischauer, then serving as the United States Ambassador to Japan, that would enable the U. S. to keep its military bases and the option to introduce nuclear weapons in Okinawa after the reversion of the U. S .- occupied islands to Japanese sovereignty.

: To reduce the risk of “ disturbances ” in Okinawa, Reischauer proposed an increase in U. S. aid, revision of the Price Act to increase compensation for owners of land the U. S. had seized for base construction, and a loosening of the ban on flying the Japanese flag.

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.

Fairbank and his colleagues at Harvard, Edwin O. Reischauer and Albert Craig wrote the dominant textbook on China and Japan, A History of East Asian Civilization and Fairbank established strong links to influential figures in Washington D. C. both by training journalists, government officials, and others and by working with the government on China policy.

Reischauer House on the campus of Tokyo Woman's Christian University in Suginami, Tokyo

The Myeongnyang Strait ( Hangul: 명량해협, Hanja: 鳴梁海峽, Revised Romanization: Myeongnyang Haehyeop, McCune – Reischauer: Myŏngnyang Haehyŏp ) separates Jindo Island and Jindo County from Haenam County on the mainland.

The convention of the apostrophe or " h " to denote aspiration is also found in romanizations of other Asian languages, such as McCune – Reischauer for Korean and ISO 11940 for Thai.

Critics of the McCune – Reischauer system claim that casual users of the system omit the breves ( ˘ ) over the o for 어 and the u for 으, because typing o or u without the breves is often easier than adding them.

This is a simplified guide for the McCune – Reischauer system.

Reischauer wrote both for fellow scholars and for the general public, including Japan: Story of a Nation, which appeared in several editions.

Reischauer was also honored in 1985 by the opening of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies ( SAIS ), which is part of Johns Hopkins University.

With George M. McCune, Reischauer in 1939 published the McCune-Reischauer system for romanization of the Korean language which became the most widely used system.

During World War II, Reischauer was the Japan expert for the U. S. Army Intelligence Service, and a myth developed that he prevented the bombing of Kyoto during the war, as explained by Robert Jungk in Brighter Than a Thousand Suns: A personal history of the atomic scientists:

* Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins, 1984.

* Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies

It is also a letter in some philological transcriptions of Latin, denoting a short U. The McCune – Reischauer Romanization of Korean uses " ŭ " to signify the close back unrounded vowel in 으.

: Already at this early date in the war, Reischauer proposed retention of the Japanese emperor as head of a postwar “ puppet regime ” that would serve U. S. interests in East Asia.

The 1969 Reversion Agreement effectively made " U. S. military presence more or less permanent and maintain the option to introduce nuclear weapons ", which Reischauer himself confirmed, as reported in a 1981 article in Time:

Two weeks ago, however, former U. S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer revealed that the two countries have ever since been living a convenient lie.

In an interview with Tokyo's Mainichi Shimbun, Reischauer asserted that U. S. naval vessels carrying nuclear weapons have routinely visited Japanese ports — with Tokyo's tacit approval.

* Edwin O. Reischauer, U. S. ambassador, academic

** Han ' gŭl in the McCune – Reischauer system.

* Tanaka, Seno, Tanaka, Sendo, Reischauer, Edwin O.

A revolution took place in the centuries from the time of the Kamakura shogunate, which co-existed in equilibrium with the Tenno's court, to the Tokugawa, when the bushi became the unchallenged rulers in what historian Edwin O. Reischauer called a " centralized feudal " form of government.

According to Edwin Reischauer, and Marius Jansen, some 70 – 80 % of the Japanese regularly tell pollsters they do not consider themselves believers in any religion.

His granddaughter, journalist Haru Matsukata Reischauer, married the American scholar of Japanese history, academic, statesman and United States Ambassador to Japan, Edwin Oldfather Reischauer.

* Reischauer, Haru Matsukata.

* Reischauer, Edwin O. and Haru M. Reischauer.

* Tanaka, Seno, Tanaka, Sendo, Reischauer, Edwin O.

McCune – Reischauer romanization 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.

Another variant of McCune – Reischauer is used as the official system in North Korea.

The system was created in 1937 by two Americans, George M. McCune and Edwin O. Reischauer.

McCune – Reischauer is widely used outside of Korea.

Reischauer was born in Tokyo, the son of Presbyterian educational missionaries, and attended the American School in Japan.

In 1973, he was the founding Director of the Japan Institute, which was renamed the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies in his honor when he turned 75 in 1985.

In 1964, while serving as Ambassador to Japan, Reischauer was stabbed in an assassination attempt.

" Books, East and West: My Life Between Japan and America by Edwin O. Reischauer ," New York Times.

* Packard, George R. Edwin O. Reischauer and the American Discovery of Japan ( New York: Columbia University Press, 2010 ).

He and Edwin O. Reischauer worked out a year long introductory survey which covered China and Japan, and later Korea and Southeast Asia.

Japan scholar Edwin O. Reischauer noted that whereas Americans often act to minimize status differences, Japanese find it awkward, even unbecoming, when a person does not behave in accordance with status expectations.