Eighty years ago, on August 30, 1945, Gen. Douglas MacArthur landed unarmed at Atsugi airfield in preparation for the surrender ceremony, which was set to take place on the battleship Missouri on ...

U.S. occupation policy in Japan was neither timid nor confused. Douglas Mac-Arthur knew what he was doing, and was prepared to insist that his critics did not. Most uncomfortable was the way Red Army ...

Mamoru Shigemitsu (1887-1957), the Japanese foreign minister who co-signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender aboard the ...

Gen. Douglas MacArthur was a hero from two World Wars who had served as the supreme commander of the Allied forces in the Pacific. He personally accepted the surrender of Japan, oversaw the Allied ...

Unexpectedly, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, head of the occupying forces in postwar Japan, was met with abundant respect there. In fact, respect is one of the milder attitudes and emotions in evidence in ...

Eight decades since the end of the Second World War, the US-Japan alliance continues to evolve beyond its Cold War ...

In “Judgment at Tokyo,” the political scholar Gary J. Bass examines the post-World War II prosecution of Japanese military atrocities and makes the case for the real efficacy of international law. By ...

The images include Emperor Hirohito being transformed into a uniformed schoolgirl and depicted as a dog, sparking fierce ...

In the chapter of Harry Truman’s memoirs that deals with the firing of General Douglas MacArthur during the Korean war, one word instantly caught Douglas MacArthur’s eye: “insubordination.” MacArthur ...