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.

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.

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

MacArthur’s purge of officialdom stirred most Japanese more than Hirohito’s scuttling of his divinity. The new parties and the press, consistently more liberal than the Government, gleefully ...