“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 ...

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 United States has taken the first step toward upgrading its military operation in Japan to a joint force headquarters, ...

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

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 ...

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.