“Many people don’t even know that Japan once waged war against Germany,” he thought at the time. “Perhaps it is worthwhile to have the flag shown to many people to help pass down the ...

The other has the red circle with 16 expanding beams, it is identified as “kyokujitsuki”, and has many Japanese ... rising sun flag is dear to the Japanese and part of its history.

“It’s history, but we don’t want to repeat it ... Last October, a military museum in the US repatriated a Japanese flag that had been displayed for many years. The New Mexico Military ...

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.

World Flags intends to create characters for all ... Samurai soldiers have played a huge part in Japanese history since at least the 12th Century. Although samurais themselves no longer exist ...

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 ...