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.
Flags belonging to Japanese soldiers from World War II may soon be reunited with the families of the servicemembers. Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum recently sent three of these so-called ...