“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 ...

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 ...

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.

The Japanese military include Sun rays on their emblems. The Japanese flag, or Hinomaru, has links with Jimmu’s great-great-grandmother too. According to Japanese tradition, the sun goddess ...

A World War II-era "good luck" flag has finally made its way home, thanks to the kindness and determination of U.S. Army veteran Chris ... a yosegaki hinomaru—a Japanese good luck flag, signed ...

TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Saturday praised American-Japanese friendship and trust while ...

JAPAN, — A World War II-era "good luck" flag has finally made its way home, thanks to the kindness and determination of U.S. Army veteran Chris Dorsey. Dorsey, from Dahlonega, Georgia ...