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 ...

Toshihiro Mutsuda was only 5 years old when he last saw his father, who was drafted by Japan's ... neatly folded flag into his hands. Two of his younger siblings, both in their 80s, stood by ...

"You have finally returned home," he says in Japanese. Obon calls the flags "nonbiological human remains," a term intended to convey their deep connection to the departed soldier. Donahue and ...