Articles
Hollywood Looks At Pivotal Moment In Postwar Japan
TOKYO – What with historical and territorial disputes with its neighbors and a rightward tilt in government, this might not seem the best time for a big-budget...
No Fading Away For MacArthur Over Here
TOKYO – More than six decades after U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur stepped down as lord and master of Japan, he remains a towering figure of the postwar era...
General Douglas MacArthur
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...
Down but Not Out
The ringing of the telephone awakened Douglas MacArthur just after 3:30 a.m. in his air-conditioned six-room penthouse atop the Manila Hotel. Japanese bombers...
HISTORICAL NOTE: Mystery Money
MacArthur got half a million Corregidor. 1941. General Douglas MacArthur, having evacuated Manila before the onrushing Japanese invaders, fled to the island...
Photo Essays
‘Take off the Silk, Put on the Khaki’: America’s First Women Soldiers, 1942
In light of recent reports of rampant sexual violence against women in America’s armed forces — with an estimated 26,000 cases of unwanted sexual contact last...
LIFE With Horace the Housebroken Hare
Carl Mydans belongs on anyone’s short list of the 20th century’s finest photojournalists. The Boston native chronicled downtrodden migrant farmers in New England...
