General Douglas MacArthur disbanded the zaibatsu shortly after the war, but Mitsubishi regrouped via cross- shareholdings.

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In 1950, General Douglas MacArthur handed over Seoul to President Syngman Rhee of South Korea.

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Not since General Douglas MacArthur has an American had such an enormous, positive impact on Japan as has Tim Collins.

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In fact, the Constitution of Japan was written by the U.S. occupation authorities, whose head was General Douglas MacArthur, under direction of officials in Washington, D.

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These days, he often cites William Manchester, a former marine and a Second World War veteran, who has written biographies of Winston Churchill and General Douglas MacArthur.

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At first, as General Douglas MacArthur's forces--after initial setbacks--overran North Korea and were fast approaching the North Korea-China border, we seemed intent on a World War II-type unconditional victory.

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General Douglas MacArthur essentially took the informal web of land arrangements of Japanese farmers and made them transparent and legal, thus giving the farmers official possession of the land they worked.

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General Douglas MacArthur and the U.S. occupying force decided Hirohito would be useful alive, on the throne and with his reputation intact in maintaining stability as Japan came to terms with living under the control of its enemy.

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Educated at Harvard both the college and the law school he had volunteered for the army in 1941 and ended the war on the staff of General Douglas MacArthur. (His wartime experience may explain why he, like other old soldiers, was always so reluctant to resort to force.) Moreover, his intellectual interests history and the law both drew him to Europe, and Britain in particular.

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