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Opinion: Caroline Kennedy's Ambassadorial Appointment

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Apr 04, 2013
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I was a graduate student in Japan in the early 1960s and was privileged to become acquainted with America's then-ambassador to Japan, Edwin Reischauer. A Japan scholar at Harvard who was fluent in Japanese, he had been named ambassador by President John F. Kennedy in what turned out to be a brilliant appointment.

Reischauer was warmly welcomed by the Jap…

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