Lieutenant General Tomoyuki Yamashita’s 25th Army was not responsible for Japan’s “70-day blitzkrieg ... that surround the long career of Douglas MacArthur, but rather to offer an engaging ...

Even though the war was over, General Douglas MacArthur was embroiled in one final complex campaign. Japan’s public surrender ceremony was a momentous occasion that required flawless execution.

Douglas MacArthur. The general had been a bedrock of post-World War II culture in the Pacific region, managing the occupation ...

General Douglas MacArthur ... was slowly overshadowed by the growing threat posed by an expansionist Japan. MacArthur, despite the able assistance of top aide Dwight Eisenhower, would not have ...

The records concern negotiations from 1958 and 1960, primarily between Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Douglas MacArthur II. In February 1958, Prime Minister ...

Douglas MacArthur was relieved of all his commands ... architect of victory over Japan in World War II; chief of the Allied occupation of Japan, and first supreme commander ever named by the ...

Japan mourns for its war dead on Aug. 15 in ... The two men were later convicted of war crimes. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, also Supreme Commander of Allied Forces, signed for the United Nations ...

On April 5, 1964, General Douglas MacArthur died from kidney and liver ... He was the leader of the allied victory against Imperial Japan. Following World War II, he was designated as the ruler ...