Article: MacArthur Returns Again.(Review)

The Emperor's General, by James Webb (Broadway, 416 pp., $25)

At the conclusion of their first meeting, not long after Japan's formal surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito posed for a photograph. The resulting image-the tiny, bespectacled Hirohito looks like MacArthur's butler-ran in newspapers all over Japan and did more to diminish the country's opinion of its royal head than even its recent military defeat. Yet as James Webb tells it in this history-meets-fiction novel, Hirohito had just won an important victory behind closed doors: MacArthur agreed not to prosecute the emperor for war crimes, despite ...

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