Robert Guillain

Robert Guillain (4 September 1908 – 29 December 1998) was a French journalist who spent most of his career in Asia at times of momentous events, such as the Pacific War. He wrote several books on Asia, especially Japan.

Guillain was considered by his colleagues and many readers as one of the most experienced and knowledgeable Western journalists in and on Asia, especially Japan and China, over the second half of the 20th century.

He spent most of his professional career in Asia as correspondent for the French news agency Agence Havas (since renamed Agence France-Presse) and then for the French daily ''Le Monde'' which he joined after the war, in 1947.

During his long presence in Asia, he witnessed and reported on some of the most dramatic and historic developments, from the Second Sino-Japanese War to World War II in Japan including the nuclear bombing of Japan at the end of the war, the decolonization conflicts and processes in India and Vietnam, the Chinese Civil War, the Korean War, the Indochina wars, China's Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution economic and political turmoils, and the rebirth and global expansion of the Japanese economy.

Since 1977, a ''Robert Guillain Reporters au Japon'' (Robert Guillain Reporters in Japan) Prize is awarded every year to selected journalists by the ''Association de Presse France-Japon'' (France-Japan Press Association). Provided by Wikipedia