Talk:Edwin O. Reischauer

message: I have read the history but I don't understand your comment: 'A simple perusal of the history will show your statement to be inaccurate'. The Jungk account is not true, that was all I was trying to point out. The entire last paragraph of Chapter 17:
"After the war the Japanese popularly attributed the sparing of Kyoto from atomic attack and serious conventional bombing to my respected colleague, Langdon Warner of the Art Department at Harvard. In his typical modesty, Warner always denied all credit for this and refused permission for the erection of a bronze statue of him, claiming that he did not wish to go through eternity bearing the burden of pigeon droppings on his head and shoulders.  Actually, a tasteful stone lantern was erected in his memory outside the gates of Horyuji Monastery in Nara. Some Japanese shifted the credit for the sparing of Kyoto from Warner to me, and a German book, entitled in English translation 'Brighter Than a Thousand Suns', has a moving story of me appearing in tears before the high command and begging for the sparing of Kyoto. I probably would have done this if I had ever had the opportunity, but there is not a word of truth to it. As has been amply proved by my friend Otis Cary of Doshisha in Kyoto, the only person deserving credit for saving Kyoto from destruction is Henry L. Stimson, the Secretary of War at the time, who had known and admired Kyoto ever since his honeymoon there several decades earlier."
On the previous page, Reischauer explains that his superiors called him and 5 other officers into the central office of the Special Branch on the morning of August 8 and was told about the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima. The group was also given a list of other possible targets that included Kyoto "though it was fortunately placed at the bottom of the list." This some 15 hours before the dropping of the bomb on Nagasaki. VelvetJ 8 Aug 2005 20:55 Tokyo Time
 
I thought I would add my comment to the debate on this page.  It seems to me like the article is fairly non-biased as it is, aside from the statements in the questionable Jungk quote.  The article itself merely states that the decision was made not to bomb the most important cultural treasures of Japan in the process of getting her to surrender.  It seems to me that anyone that thinks that decision was in error has some serious anti-Japanese sentiment motivating them.  Just my opinion.
--Scipantheist 15:22, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: By the way, in his book, "My Life Between Japan and America," Reischauer says that he agreed with dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, but that he thought dropping a second bomb on Nagasaki was unnescessary. Cla68 06:48, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
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message: Do we have a source that states his ethnic background? I remember reading that he was half-Japanese, but I don't have the source. Heroeswithmetaphors (talk) 08:13, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
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