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 taken from Sadao Yasue during the ...
Some shouted "banzai" — "long live" — while others waved small paper Japanese flags. "I feel for those who are still greatly ...
For him, his father was a bespectacled man in an old family photo standing by a signed good-luck flag that ... central Japan, to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, where the 2.5 million war dead are ...
As was customary during any visit to a foreign land, Perry’s flagship flew all of its colors, including a new hand-sewn, ...
At the end of World War II, as part of Japan's surrender ... The Japanese military include Sun rays on their emblems. The Japanese flag, or Hinomaru, has links with Jimmu’s great-great ...
FLAGS throughout PNG were flying at half mast yesterday as the country joined others world-wide to respect the death of ...
Some shouted “banzai” - “long live” - while others waved small paper Japanese flags ... Historically, World War II was fought in the name of Naruhito’s grandfather Hirohito.
People across the United States have been mailing Japanese flags to an office in Oregon. The banners are “heirlooms” kept by American families over the decades. Many are from World War Two ...
At the 2017 Antiques Roadshow in New Orleans, Arms & Militaria expert Jeff Shrader appraised this World War II-era flag — which ... that PT-109 collided with a Japanese destroyer and exploded?
Some shouted “banzai” — “long live” — while others waved small paper Japanese flags. “I feel for those who are still greatly suffering ... The emperor does not have political power but has symbolic ...