Although the occupation was nominally an allied enterprise -- MacArthur's title ... that MacArthur was behind everything that happened in Japan far exceeds the reality, he deserves a great deal ...

“It’s no secret that MacArthur was and is a polarizing figure,” Barbara Noe Kennedy wrote in World War II magazine. “A ...

1 audiocassette tape of a memorial for Brines in Japan (1982); the manuscript for "MacArthur's Japan"; photographs of the Allied occupation of Japan after World War II, the Korean War and Brines; and ...

“Nippon Nikki” (Japan Diary), an account of the Allied occupation of Japan by American journalist Mark Gayn (1909-1981), describes a scene where GHQ officials show their draft of Japan’s new ...

MacArthur was given absolute status during the Allied occupation of Japan (1945-1952). MacArthur, postwar democracy, individual freedom and other values could be summarized under the name of the ...

She specializes in modern Japanese history, with a particular interest in postwar photography and visual culture, cultural identity and representation, and social relations of the Allied Occupation of ...

“A brilliant tactician, revered for helping to win World War II and overseeing the successful Allied occupation of postwar Japan, but also a man who could be vain, arrogant, suspicious and ...