In the eighty years since of the atomic bombings of Japan dozens of opportunities to halt the macabre march of nuclear ...

It took two atomic bombs to bring Western military victory, but one photograph of General Douglas MacArthur casually towering over the rigid and formal Emperor Hirohito, to bring humiliation to ...

But some nations mark Aug. 15 as the war’s end, the day Japan’s emperor made a speech announcing ... later convicted of war crimes. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, also Supreme Commander of Allied ...

General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, in 1946. Since then, strange rents have appeared in the densely woven fabric of Japanese society, ranging from Emperor Hirohito’s public disavowal of the ...

Douglas MacArthur closed in on the home islands of Emperor Hirohito and his subjects. In a time when the chaos of news-by-the-minute assaults the senses of those who yearn for perspective and analysis ...

Third part in Aleksandr Sokurov's quadrilogy of Power, following Moloch (1999) and Taurus (2001), focuses on Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Japan's defeat in World War II when he is finally confronted ...