“It’s called a good luck flag — every Japanese soldier carried one into ... Allied soldiers often kept the flags after, per army protocol, they’d searched the bodies of dead combatants ...

U.S. Army veteran Chris Dorsey returns a WWII good luck flag to a fallen Japanese soldier’s family, bringing closure and unity across generations.

The press office of the Japanese embassy did not respond to a request for comment. Over the last decade, several military and regional museums have returned the yosegaki hinomaru flags from ...

Japan activated its Japan Self-Defense Force Joint Operations Command (JJOC) Monday, allowing its military to better conduct ...

Japan actually has two rising sun flags, one of them is the national ... reminds the pain and suffering of the country during the military aggression at the beginning of last century until 1945 ...

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.