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.

After Emperor Hirohito (aka Emperor Shōwa ... That was largely thanks to General Douglas MacArthur, who was appointed Supreme ...

His report: ” ‘Emperor’ Hiromichi (meaning Way ... my rights and on the rest of the world. … I consider Hirohito a war criminal. MacArthur is heaven’s messenger to Japan. . . . My ...

MacArthur’s purge of officialdom stirred most Japanese more than Hirohito’s scuttling of his ... made by the people themselves … up to the Emperor himself if they continue to cling to ...

According to a 1987 interview with Grand Chamberlain Yoshihiro Tokugawa, who served the emperor for 50 years at the Imperial Palace, Hirohito's affinity for the biological began in the sixth grade ...

By Yo Zushi In April 1951, General Douglas MacArthur went to the US Congress to deliver ... ventriloquise his preoccupations with national and cultural decline after Emperor Hirohito rejected his ...

Emperor Hirohito appeared to be preparing for war against the United States about two months before Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, according to a diary that raises further questions about his ...

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 ...

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.