Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family waved from a balcony window to throngs of New Year’s well-wishers, some shouting, ...

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.

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 ...

By the time World War II ended in September 1945 ... [that] was the first American flag hoisted over Japanese soil.” The ...

People across the United States have been mailing Japanese flags to an office in Oregon. The banners are “heirlooms” kept by American families over the decades. Many are from World War Two ...

As such, it was flying during Japan's imperialist expansion when it occupied Korea and part of China. During World War Two, it became the flag of the navy - and that's largely where it got its ...

More than 60 people signed an American flag that bears more than 500 names ... They lost everything, he said, and ended up moving to Japan once the war ended. The move was particularly hard ...

Some shouted “banzai” — “long live” — while others waved small paper Japanese flags. “I feel for those ... Historically, World War II was fought in the name of Naruhito’s ...

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 ...