Reischauer Is Full Professor

Edwin O. Reischauer moves up from associate to full professor of Far Eastern Languages July 1, Provost Buck announced last night.

Reischauer, an authority on Japan, joined the faculty as an instructor in 1939. He served during the war as Senior Research Analyst in the war Department and as Major and Lieutenant Colonel in Military Intelligence.

In 1945 he became Special Assistant to the Director of the Office of Far Eastern Affairs and Chairman of the Japan-Korea Secretariat of the State Department. In 1948-49, he served as a member of the Cultural and Social Science Mission to Japan of the U.S. Army Department.

Born in Tokyo, Japan, on October 15, 1910, Professor Reischauer graduated from Oberlin College in 1931 and was awarded the M.A. in 1932 and Ph.D. in 1939 from Harvard University.

Between 1932 and 1939 he was a Travelling Fellow of the Harvard-Yenching Institute and studied at the University of Paris, Tokyo Imperial University, Kyoto Imperial University and in Korea and China.

While in government service in 1945, he was appointed associate professor of Far Eastern Languages. He is also a Director of the Far Eastern Association and a member of the Committee on Far Eastern Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies.