The Rising Flag Sun is flown aboard the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's Osumi LST-class amphibious transport dock ship Kunisaki, May 27, 2014, in Yokosuka, Japan. The flag's controversial ...

was used by the Japanese Imperial Army in World War II, Wrong. The Imperial Army Flag had the sun in the center and has not been used since WWII. The JGSDF flag has just eight rays. The 16 rayed ...

But the continuing controversy over the flag and other symbols of Imperial Japan are a reminder of how fresh the horrors of the 20th century are in Asia. Advertisement. Advertisement.

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family greeted throngs of New Year’s well-wishers from a balcony window at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Thursday.

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- In a gesture of friendship and goodwill, Rear Adm. James F. Caldwell, commander, Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet, returned a Japanese good luck flag belonging to a ...

Toshihiro Mutsuda, the elderly son of Japanese soldier Shigeyoshi Mutsuda, second left, adjusts his father's good luck flag to their family photo during a press conference after the handover ...

TOKYO — Toshihiro Mutsuda was only 5 years old when he last saw his father, who was drafted by Japan's Imperial Army in 1943 and killed in action. For him, his father was a bespectacled man in ...