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.
returned home with souvenirs from his time at war. Among them was a Japanese flag that he found after the Battle of Luzon in ...
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 ...
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 ...