As puppet president of Japan’s Republic of the Philippines, squat, bespectacled Jose P. Laurel lived in uneasy luxury. Peasant-born and Yale-educated, he occupied Manila’s ornate Malacanan ...

In an interview with Philstar.com, the great grandson of the late President Jose P. Laurel said his family has long line of public servants, but he didn't want to join politics. "No, absolutely not.

He spoke about his grandfather, Jose P. Laurel, the supreme nationalist and patriot disclosing a grim period in his grandfather’s tenure as president during the Japanese Occupation.