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.

Emperor Hirohito and General MacArthur ... On the morning of September 8, 1945, General Douglas MacArthur made his way by automobile toward the American Embassy in the heart of Tokyo.

From General Douglas MacArthur came ... or stay on as exempt? MacArthur’s purge of officialdom stirred most Japanese more than Hirohito’s scuttling of his divinity. The new parties and the ...