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On Oct. 28, 2025, President Donald Trump addressed a Business Leaders Dinner in Tokyo, reminding his audience of a forgotten chapter in history. "A lot of people don’t know that about General Douglas MacArthur!" he said. "The moment that the peace was signed 80 years ago … he actually wrote the Constitution here, and he did it all by himself. He was an intellect." Critics suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome mocked the remark, but Trump was essentially right. After Japan’s devastating defeat in World War II — marked by the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki— MacArthur, inspired by America’s Founding Fathers, defied Washington bureaucracy and ordered his staff to draft a new Japanese constitution in just one

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