When Scott Stein was growing up in New York, he’d often visit his grandfather on Long Island and admire a Japanese flag hanging on the wall in his den. Bernard Stein never talked about his ...

Just a flag - or a symbol of imperial terror? Fans cheering in a stadium and waving a flag is a staple sight at any international sports event. But what if a flag is so offensive to some countries ...

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 ...

His job was to rebuild roads and bridges destroyed buy the Japanese. This Japanese flag was amongst the things he brought back to Britain when he finally returned at the beginning of 1947.

“We knew that the right thing to do would be to send the flag home, to be in Japan and to the family.” The soldier's eldest son, Toshihiro Mutsuda, was speechless for a few seconds when ...

a new constitution redefined the role of the emperor and Emperor Hirohito publicly renounced his divine status. The Japanese military include Sun rays on their emblems. The Japanese flag ...

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.

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 ...