Gen. MacArthur's Ploy is an historical novel about the framing of Japan's constitution. Japan lay in ruins when occupying American and Allied forces came ashore in September, 1945. Major population centers and much of Japan was devastated, people were dying in the streets from starvation and disease, families were lost or scattered. Only a few decades earlier this peaceful, near-feudal society was high-jacked by a clique of the ruling class and became a rogue fascist state aggressively conquering millions in Asia. Now it was over, the monumental task of changing the culture and rebuilding had...