On September 6th, 1945, Truman announced the ‘US Initial Post-Surrender Policy for Japan ’, instructing General MacArthur to exercise his authority through Japan’s existing government structures, ...

The Japanese writer and nationalist, a darling of the US far right, was haunted by the aesthetics of self-destruction.

Last week General Douglas MacArthur suddenly discovered that the War of the Chrysanthemums still smoldered. To the Allied Commander from one Hiromichi Kumazawa, self-styled “Emperor” and 19th ...

Even the Emperor, who had always wished to preserve the peace, found himself caught in the same trap. When General MacArthur after the war asked Hirohito why he did not earlier take a stand ...

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Emperor Hirohito's scratchy penmanship will be on show for the first time with a collection of rare handwritten “waka” poems he composed in his waning years. The special exhibition at the ...

Her Laugh completed a banner day for Grantley Acres' Geoff Nixon and trainer Whit Beckman when the Practical Joke filly coasted to a gate-to-wire triumph in the $99,000 Untapable Stakes Dec. 21 at ...

Now that I know the answers, I cannot understand why these facts are not more widely known within our cultural heritage. Before we get to the story of General Douglas MacArthur, I need to give a brief ...