However, for the two Koreas, China, Myanmar, Malaysia, and other Asian nations, it is a symbol of the war atrocities ... from the Games. Japan actually has two rising sun flags, one of them ...

World War II veteran Marvin Strombo traveled 10,000 miles from his quiet home in Montana to the land of the rising sun to personally return a Japanese flag he had taken from Sadao Yasue during the ...

Getty Images Japanese soldiers during WWII and the country's modern ... Many South Koreans associate the rising sun flag with a long list of war crimes and oppression - and see Japan's continued ...

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 ...

As the Allies began to turn the tide during the Second World War, the Axis powers desperately sought for any means to salvage ...