“I never thought it would be this big,” Takashi said, visibly caught up in emotion, as he held the flag that had arrived from Ehime Prefecture. As a resident of Chichijima, Takashi has lived ...

located Takashi in September after reading a translated Asahi Shimbun article about a replica of the original flag being presented to him by Akira Kondo, a resident of Saijo, Ehime Prefecture.