The many incorrect initials of Gen. Douglas MacArthur

Because of an editing error, an obituary on Friday of Kenji Miyamoto, the longtime leader of postwar Japan’s Communist Party, rendered incorrectly the name of the American general in charge of the Allied occupation, who barred Mr. Miyamoto and 23 other party members from public service just before the outbreak of the Korean War. He was Gen. Douglas MacArthur; he had no middle name and did not use the initial A (or other initials often ascribed to him, including B, C and S) (Go to Article). The error most recently appeared on June 29 in an obituary of Kiichi Miyazawa, Japan’s prime minister in the 1990s. Five articles in 2005 included the “A” (on May 29, June 20, June 28, July 29 and Aug. 26), and the “A” has been used in 19 other articles since 1987. Link