FILE--Gen. Douglas MacArthur, left, poses with Emperor Hirohito during the Japanese emperor's visit to the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo in this Sept. 27,1945 file photo.

Time has stood still on the sixth floor of the Dai-Ichi Life building across the moat from Tokyo's Imperial Palace. Behind heavy wooden doors lies an office, preserved since 1945, that houses the desk ...

Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co. has opened to the public a room at its Tokyo headquarters that was used by Gen. Douglas MacArthur during the U.S. military occupation of Japan following World War II.

General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) "You couldn't shrug your shoulders at Douglas MacArthur," observes historian David McCullough. "There was nothing bland about him, nothing passive about him ...

Book Excerpt “Keep the flag flying”: Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s escape from the Philippines, 1942 The general fled Manila Bay to avoid being captured by the Japanese army, promising to return.

General Douglas MacArthur Roger Baldwin, who spent three months working under MacArthur in Japan after World War II, remembers the general fondly. Roger Baldwin Bluesky June 25, 2009 ...

Gen. Douglas MacArthur supreme Allied commander, was tense and expressionless as he began the surrender ceremony and invited Shigemitsu to affix the first signature to the surrender documents ...

Japan signed surrender documents on Sept. 2, 1945.Meanwhile, the U.S. First Calvary Division was massing south of Tokyo waiting an order from MacArthur “to march into the city. Behind them were ...

Eight hours after receiving reports of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, MacArthur’s procrastination resulted in half his air force being destroyed on the ground at Clark Field in the ...

Tommy Lee Jones to Play Gen. Douglas MacArthur in ‘Emperor’ Director Peter Webber's historical epic, also starring Matthew Fox, is set in Japan at the end of World War II.