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Supreme Commander Allied Powers, the title for
Douglas MacArthur during the
occupation of
Japan following
WWII.
SCAP also referred to the offices of the occupation, including a staff
of several hundred
American
civil servants as well as
military officers. These personnel pretty much wrote the
Japan Constitution to which the
Diet (parliament) then ratified.
MacArthur was succeeded as SCAP by General
Matthew Ridgeway when MacArthur was relived by President
Harry Truman for insubordination. With the peace treaty with Japan,
the post of SCAP lapsed.
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