Messages in Japanese were written on the silk around the bright red sun at its center. The words were meant for the World War II Japanese soldier who carried it with him to battle. Typically, ...

The delicate flag was recently spread on a kitchen counter in the Santa Rosa Valley, east of Camarillo, as three friends pondered its origins. Messages in Japanese were written on the silk around the ...

For the first time, high government officials in Japan will receive the gift of World War II soldier flags that were taken as battlefield souvenirs by American GIs. The silk flags -- yosegaki hinomaru ...

A flag carried by a Japanese soldier killed in action during World War II was handed over Thursday by the USS Lexington Museum in Texas to a nonprofit organization for return to the man’s family.

In August 1945, John K. Bremyer undertook a 124-hour, 9,000-mile journey to Tokyo Bay, where he delivered the flag flown by Commodore Matthew Perry in 1853 to Admiral William Halsey’s USS “Missouri” ...

Aug. 15 (UPI) --A World War II Marine Corps veteran has returned a flag he took from the body of a dead Japanese soldier on Saipan to the soldier's family in Japan. Marvin Strombo made the journey ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — A father and son from Salt Lake County have recently returned from Japan after helping to solve a World War II mystery. It was a life changing momentin the lives of a family in ...