FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2012, file photo, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) escort ship "Kurama," left, navigates behind destroyer "Yudachi," with a rising sun flag, during a fleet review ...

The outstretched flags, gently clipped on foam board, are propped against chairs and the wall in front of the auditorium. Six in all, each a unique work of art, with exquisite calligraphy ...

OLYMPIA — The flag of a father is going home to Japan, more than 68 years after it was retrieved from a cave during the bloody World War II battle for control of Okinawa.

A U.S. Army colonel’s great-grandson returned a “good luck” flag Wednesday to the family of a Japanese soldier who carried it into battle during World War II.

This Monday, Aug. 7, 2017 photo provided by the Obon Society shows a Japanese flag, owned by WWII veteran Marvin Strombo with explanatory markings of names on it in Portland, Ore. Strombo ...

HIGASHISHIRAKAWA, Japan — Tatsuya Yasue buried his face into the flag and smelled it. Then he held the 93-year-old hands that brought this treasure home, and kissed them. Marvin Strombo, who had ...

Now, Ventura resident Tom Hodges hopes the flag his father sent home during the war can be returned to the soldier’s family in Japan. Hodges, 85, had been trying to find someone to take the flag ...

That’s why the flag has created anger at the Olympics, with some of […] SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Japan considers the “rising sun” flag part of its history.