Toshihiro Mutsuda was only 5 years old when he last saw his father, who was drafted by ... The flag was donated in 1994 and displayed at the museum aboard the USS Lexington, a WWII aircraft ...

Getty Images Japanese soldiers during WWII and the country's modern-day navy The rising sun flag has a similar red ... set up for Japanese soldiers before and during World War Two.

Flags belonging to Japanese soldiers from World War II may soon be reunited with the families of the servicemembers. Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum recently sent three of these so-called ...

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 with him before his departure.

A flag carried by a Japanese soldier killed in action during World War II was handed over Thursday ... the flag and surrounded by family members before he left for war, Ziak said.

By the time World War II ... Japan’s surrender. Bremyer died on April 17, 2008, followed by the love of his life, Jayne, on ...

However the flag with the sun and beams became the symbol of the imperial navy particularly ... The Japanese government argues that both flags have been flown by the country well before any ...