Robert Christopher

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Robert Collins Christopher was an American journalist who served in World War II and was in the force that occupied Japan after Douglas MacArthur accepted the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri. After the war was over he returned to Japan frequent times as both a journalist and an author.

Death

He died from emphysema on June 14, 1992 at the age of 68 in New London, Connecticut.^[1]^[2]

Journalist

Christopher was a senior and executive editor at Newsweek, and he also held positions in Time. For over ten years Christopher served as the secretary on the Pulitzer Board as a non-voting member and administrator of Pulitzer Prizes at Columbia University since 1981.^[3]^[2] Pulitzer Prize Board president Claude Sitton stated that Christopher was "personally a warm and wonderful fellow who was admired by all."^[2]

Author

He published three books:

The Japanese Mind: The Goliath Explained
Second to None: American Companies in Japan
Crashing the Gates: the DeWASPing of America's Power Elite

References

↑ Lamb. "Crashing the Gates". C-SPAN. Retrieved 1 April 2011.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Heise, Kenan. "Author Robert C. Christopher, Editor At Time, Newsweek". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 18 May 2013.
↑ Heise, Kenan (June 15, 1992). "Author Robert C. Christopher, Editor At Time, Newsweek". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 1 April 2011.

External links

Booknotes interview with Christopher on Crashing the Gates, June 11, 1989.

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Name	Christopher, Robert
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Date of death	1992
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