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Emperor MacArthur: The Rarely Told Story of Japan’s Occupation

And the effects on and of the man who ruled the occupied territory from Tokyo

Grant Piper
Published in
6 min readApr 2, 2021

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After a decade of nearly constant conflict, including three and half brutal years of fighting the Americans and two atomic bomb detonations later, the Japanese were finally ready to surrender. Imperial Japan surrendered to Allied…

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Grant Piper
Exploring History

Professional writer. Amateur historian. Husband, father, Christian.