“I don’t need a history lesson, Your Excellency,” the true-blue American general tells Emperor Hirohito’s ex-prime minister when he lectures his inquisitor about the bloody imperialist actions of ...

The book, which came out last summer, caused a considerable stir in the West and Asia with its conclusion that, far from being a passive figure manipulated by militarists, Hirohito actively ...

Douglas MacArthur was a great thundering paradox of a man, and nothing is more illustrative of the contradictions which lay at his core than his postwar rule of Japan. The very fact that his Tokyo ...