President Donald Trump praised General Douglas MacArthur's role in drafting Japan's constitution, drawing parallels to ...

Douglas MacArthur’s firing by President Harry S. Truman in 1951 is the only genuine case of wartime insubordination by an American military commander. There is no question that the president had a ...

During a reception and dinner event for business leaders in Japan earlier today, Donald Trump claimed that U.S. General ...

NORFOLK, Va. — A new exhibit on the U.S. occupation of Japan after World War II opens Aug. 23 at the MacArthur Memorial, paired with a special lecture series on the war’s final weeks in the Pacific.

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 ...

War's end -- The old Japan -- The new Japan -- Occupation diplomat -- The United States job -- Working with Macarthur -- Allied council for Japan -- War crimes trials -- Korean war -- Dismissal of ...

On Oct. 20, 1944, U.S. general waded into the waters at Leyte as World War II moved toward its final chapters.

The first thing we discussed was that Japan’s crisis was unlikely to be solved by politics because at its root it’s a ...

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 ...

In 158 pages of text and 53 pages of footnotes, James A. Villanueva gives us an information-dense yet readable overview of the logistics, politics, and intelligence of the anti-Japanese guerilla ...