Douglas MacArthur began his service in the Army by traveling to several Asian countries including Japan,and to the Philippines, then an American territory.
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Japan's system, having been devised on the back of a cocktail napkin in a Ginza bar byDouglasMacArthur in 1945, is different.
DouglasMacArthur dispatched to arrest Tojo, sought by the Allied powers so he could be tried for atrocities committed by Japanese troops during the war, including the Bataan Death March.
In fact, the Constitution of Japan was written by the U.S. occupation authorities, whose head was General DouglasMacArthur, under direction of officials in Washington, D.