she said the OBON Society has returned more than 600 World War II-era Japanese flags to soldiers’ families. She estimates there are probably another 50,000 good luck flags still unaccounted for ...

who was drafted by Japan's Imperial Army in 1943 and killed in action. For him, his father was a bespectacled man in an old family photo standing by a signed good-luck flag that he carried to war.

By the time World War II ended in September 1945 ... [that] was the first American flag hoisted over Japanese soil.” The ...

However, for the two Koreas, China, Myanmar, Malaysia, and other Asian nations, it is a symbol of the war atrocities committed by Japanese forces in the past. That is why flying the flag at the ...

A flag carried by a Japanese soldier killed in action during World War II was handed over Thursday by the USS Lexington Museum in Texas to a nonprofit organization for return to the man’s family ...

As such, it was flying during Japan's imperialist expansion when it occupied Korea and part of China. During World War Two, it became the flag of the navy - and that's largely where it got its ...

He spent most of the war stationed in India with the 14th ... His job was to rebuild roads and bridges destroyed buy the Japanese. This Japanese flag was amongst the things he brought back to ...

More than 60 people signed an American flag that bears more than 500 names ... They lost everything, he said, and ended up moving to Japan once the war ended. The move was particularly hard ...

White Flag and Red Cross In 1864 ... observe the Hague Convention of 1907 outlining the laws and customs of war. That Japanese forces did not strictly follow the Geneva Conventions is hardly ...

The USS Ronald Reagan returned to its homeport of Yokosuka, Japan over the weekend after a ... aircraft carrier flying its distinctive battle flag of twin sabers crossed over the number 76 on ...