“It’s called a good luck flag — every Japanese soldier carried one into ... two years after he left to serve in the Imperial Army on the day Tsukasa was born. The family never received ...

Japan's national flag is simply a red disc on a white background ... Yet Japan's alleged inability to properly deal with its brutal imperial past "is not the fault of the Japan alone", he ...

it is identified as “kyokujitsuki”, and has many Japanese neighbors tormented since it was standard imperial navy when the invasions The rising sun flag is dear to the Japanese and part of its ...

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.

An appraisal by the German House showed the flag is a war ensign of the S90, a torpedo boat of the German East Asia Squadron, which fought against Imperial Japanese armed forces in the Chinese ...