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 ...

Researchers found a World War II-era "good luck flag" that belonged to a Japanese soldier in a Texas museum. They returned it to his family in a Tokyo ceremony.

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 ...

Bernard Stein never talked about his combat experiences in Southeast Asia during World War II, but he’d brought the flag home as a war trophy after fighting with the U.S. Army’s 38th Infantry ...

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 ...