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Edwin O. Reischauer

1910 - 1990

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Edwin Oldfather Reischauer (; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edwin O. Reischauer has received more than 194,534 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Edwin O. Reischauer is the 292nd most popular historian (down from 241st in 2019), the 998th most popular biography from Japan (down from 933rd in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Edwin O. Reischauer ranks 292 out of 339. Before him are Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, Gerda Lerner, Heinrich Zimmer, İlber Ortaylı, Kurt Aland, and Paul Kennedy. After him are Jerónimo Zurita y Castro, Donald Kagan, Drew Gilpin Faust, Fernão Lopes, Julien Ries, and Joseph-François Michaud.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Edwin O. Reischauer ranks 188. Before him are Cahit Arf, Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark, Arsenie Boca, Francisco Coloane, Gaston Defferre, and Viggo Kampmann. After him are Fei Xiaotong, Pál Turán, Lupita Tovar, Elmar Klos, Alicia Markova, and Gus Hall. Among people deceased in 1990, Edwin O. Reischauer ranks 155. Before him are René David, Joel McCrea, Vladimir Stoychev, Erkki Aaltonen, Luis Trenker, and Xu Xiangqian. After him are Luigi Beccali, Otto E. Neugebauer, Robert Cummings, Merab Mamardashvili, Edmond Delfour, and Đorđe Vujadinović.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Edwin O. Reischauer ranks 998 out of 6,048. Before him are Akio Ōtsuka (1959), Shojiro Sugimura (1905), Naoemon Shimizu (null), Hironobu Sakaguchi (1962), Isao Kimura (1923), and Ichirō Nagai (1931). After him are Miyuki Nakajima (1952), Hidetsugu Yagi (1886), Masuji Ibuse (1898), Yukio Ozaki (1858), Shirase Nobu (1861), and Kyusaku Ogino (1882).

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Among HISTORIANS In Japan

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

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