In an emotional 1953 essay posted by Guideposts, General Douglas MacArthur recounts the Thanksgiving story of Hachiro Yuasa, ...

The task of reconstructing Europe after World War II was divvied up among the handful of victorious nations. But in the Pacific, the job of rebuilding Japan fell, effectively, to a single man: U.S.

Ian W. Toll is the author of the new book “Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945,” the final entry in his nonfiction trilogy about the Pacific War. On the cool, cloudy morning of ...

ON THIS DAY IN 1945, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “The safety of Gen. Douglas MacArthur when he makes his first appearance in Japan is one of the chief worries for officers in charge of ...

On Oct. 28, 2025, President Donald Trump addressed a Business Leaders Dinner in Tokyo, reminding his audience of a forgotten chapter in history. "A lot of people don’t know that about General Douglas ...

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