control of the islands in time of military crisis, then we would be able to keep our bases on the islands, even though 'full sovereignty' reverted to Japan." These "became key elements [of] the 1969 U.S.-Japan Okinawa Reversion Agreement," effectively making "U.S. military presence more or less permanent and maintaining the option to introduce nuclear weapons." In a 1981 article, Time reported: "Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer revealed that ...U.S. naval vessels carrying nuclear weapons have routinely visited Japanese ports—with Tokyo's tacit approval." The secret memo also revealed Reischauer's proposed countermeasures to quell "nationalistic reaction" to continuing US military presence in Okinawa. In his 2010 article, "'Secret' 1965 Memo Reveals Plans to Keep U.S. bases and Nuclear Weapons Options in Okinawa After Reversion," Steve Rabson, author and lecturer on Okinawan literature, history, and culture, wrote: Romanization of Korean With George M. McCune, Reischauer in 1939 published the McCune–Reischauer system for romanization of the Korean language, which became the most-widely used system for many years. Reischauer called Hangul, the Korean alphabet, "perhaps the most scientific system of writing in general use in any language." Honors Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1957 Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun, 1968 Elected to the American Philosophical Society, 1973 Japan Foundation Award, 1975 Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins, 1984. Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies (RIJS) at Harvard, 1985 Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures, series of lectures from 1986 given at Harvard Notable students Gail Lee Bernstein, (University of Arizona) Albert M. Craig (Harvard University) John W. Dower (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) John Whitney Hall (Yale University) Howard Hibbett (Harvard University) Marius Jansen (Princeton University) Joyce Chapman Lebra (University of Colorado) John Curtis Perry (The Fletcher School, Tufts University) Sen. Jay Rockefeller Robert A. Scalapino (University of California at Berkeley) Conrad Totman (Yale University) Edward Willett Wagner (Harvard University) Selected bibliography The statistical overview of writings by and about Reischauer, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses some 300 works in more than 1000 publications in 18 languages and more than 23,000 library holdings. The Romanization of the Korean language, Based Upon Its Phonetic Structure (1939) with G. M. McCune Elementary Japanese for University Students (1942) with S. Elisséeff Japan: Past and Present (1946; rev. ed. 1952, 1964) The United States and Japan (1950; rev. ed. 1957, 1965) Translations from Early Japanese Literature (1951)