>Shortly after the formal signing ceremony, he [MacArthur] initiated investigations into Japanese war crimes.
This might explain MacArthur’s popularity in post-war Japan. People HATED the military control they had and blamed them for the war.
*Slightly* outdated news.
‘The United States even had a special flag flown in for the ceremony, the same flag used by Commodore Matthew Perry when he forcibly opened Japan to trade in 1853.’
That, ladies and gentleman, in diplomatic-speak, is called a “burn”.
Things definitely would have been better for everyone if Japan never started that war.
Just visited the Missouri last week while on holiday in Oahu. Back in Tokyo now
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>Shortly after the formal signing ceremony, he [MacArthur] initiated investigations into Japanese war crimes.
This might explain MacArthur’s popularity in post-war Japan. People HATED the military control they had and blamed them for the war.
*Slightly* outdated news.
‘The United States even had a special flag flown in for the ceremony, the same flag used by Commodore Matthew Perry when he forcibly opened Japan to trade in 1853.’
That, ladies and gentleman, in diplomatic-speak, is called a “burn”.
Things definitely would have been better for everyone if Japan never started that war.
Just visited the Missouri last week while on holiday in Oahu. Back in Tokyo now