# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edwin-o-reischauer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:29:35.219Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edwin-o-reischauer"
name: "Edwin O. Reischauer"
slug: "edwin-o-reischauer"
description: "Edwin Oldfather Reischauer 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 and several Korean linguists, in 1939 he developed the McCune–Reischauer romanization of the Korean language."
tagline: "American diplomat (1910-1990)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Our_Asian_Frontiers-06.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1910-10-15"
deathDate: "1990-09-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump