OBERLIN, OHIO--Oberlin College is pleased to announce the awarding of the Ambassador Edwin O. Reischauer Scholarship to Takahiko Yoshioka, a graduate of St. Mary’s School, Tokyo, Japan.

He is the second recipient of this full-tuition, four year scholarship. It is awarded annually to a Japanese student of exceptional promise and ability. The scholarship is named in honor of former American ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer, who died in 1990. Reischauer was a 1931 graduate of Oberlin College. Takahiko Yoshioka, the son of Takkaaki and Yayoi Yoshioka, will begin his studies at Oberlin later this month. Takahiko has lived in a number of foreign countries and would like to use his Oberlin education in a way that would increase international awareness. In this goal he speaks of Ambassador Reischauer as a "role model."

The Ambassador Edwin O. Reischauer Scholarship is designed to strengthen Japanese-American understanding and cooperation and to create, over time, an association of scholars educated in the liberal arts and committed to international understanding.

For more information about the Ambassador Edwin O. Reischauer Scholarship, please contact the Oberlin College Office of Admissions by mail at 101 North Professor Street, Oberlin, Ohio 44074-1075 U.S.A.; by telephone: 440-775-8411; or by e-mail: college.admissions@oberlin.edu. For additional information about Oberlin College, please visit the Oberlin College Website: www.oberlin.edu.