Robert Guillain

Robert Guillain (4 September 1908 – 29 December 1998) was a French journalist and author of several books on Japan.^[1]^[2] He was assigned by Agence Havas (current Agence France-Presse) to Japan in 1938, and, following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, could not return to France until 1946.^[3] Guillain witnessed the atom bomb explosion at Hiroshima.^[4] As recounted in his book I Saw Tokyo Burning: An Eyewitness Narrative from Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima, he was reporting from Tokyo during the Pacific War and saw firsthand the effects of the Gyokuon-hōsō, in which the Japanese emperor Hirohito announced the surrender of Japan.

Works

I Saw Tokyo Burning: An Eyewitness Narrative from Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima, Jove Publications, 1982
Résumé d'expérience Aventure Japon, Arlea, réédition 2003, ISBN 2-86959-617-0
Six cent millions de Chinois, Julliard, 1956
Dans trente ans la Chine, Seuil, 1965
Japon, troisième grand, Seuil, 1969
La Guerre au Japon, Stock, 1979
L’espion qui sauva Moscou, Seuil, 1981
Les Geishas, Arléa, 1988
Autobiographie Orient extrême, une vie en Asie, Le Seuil, 1989, ISBN 2-02-010528-4

References

^ "book list". Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Guillain/e/B001K77LZ4. Retrieved 2010-09-11.
^ "book list". Goodreads.com. http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1199180.Robert_Guillain. Retrieved 2010-09-11.
^ "The Tokyo Fire Raids, 1945: The Japanese View". Eyewitnesstohistory.com. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/tokyo.htm. Retrieved 2010-09-11.
^ Guillain, Robert (August 1980). "‘I Thought My Last Hour Had Come...’ An eyewitness account of the atom bomb explosion at Hiroshima". The Atlantic. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1980/08/-lsquo-i-thought-my-last-hour-had-come-rsquo/6349/. Retrieved September 2010.

External links

(French) Le blog de Association Robert Guillain Loi 1901

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Name	Guillain, Robert
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Short description	Author
Date of birth	September 4, 1908
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Date of death	December 29, 1998
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