If ever a picture was worth a thousand words, it was the image of General MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito standing side by side during their historic first meeting on September 27, 1945.

Emperor Hirohito and General MacArthur ... On the morning of September 8, 1945, General Douglas MacArthur made his way by automobile toward the American Embassy in the heart of Tokyo.

If Hirohito was so involved, how did he avoid prosecution for war crimes? That was largely thanks to General Douglas ...

The notes were dictated by the emperor and written down by an aide A memoir by former Japanese Emperor Hirohito about ... the likely encouragement of Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander ...