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

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 ...

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.

In “Judgment at Tokyo,” the political scholar Gary J. Bass examines the post-World War II prosecution of Japanese military atrocities and makes the case for the real efficacy of international law. By ...

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 ...

The reclusive only child of five-star Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur made a rare public statement Saturday to honor the Americans and Filipinos who fought to liberate the Philippines from Japanese ...

Excerpted from "Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila" by James M. Scott (W.W. Norton & Company, 2018). Reprinted with permission from W.W. Norton & Company. “I consider him an ...

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