Outrageous Smear of U.S. Troops Made History Books

In 1964, Japan’s most consequential postwar prime minister, Shigeru Yoshida, saluted the leader of America’s occupation of his country by saying, upon Douglas MacArthur’s death: “Out of the stringent food shortages, out of the confusion of our political, economic and social systems, and out of the insecurity of men’s hearts, MacArthur laid the foundations for a new Japan, which became the source of our nation’s prosperity today.”