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. For all these years, the silk ...

CRAIG T. KOJIMA / [email protected] Rear Adm. James F. Caldwell, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet submarine forces, returned an old Japa­nese flag, believed to have belonged to a World War ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Japan considers the “rising sun” flag part of its history. But some in the Koreas, China and other Asian countries say the flag is a reminder of Japan’s wartime atrocities, ...

Japan on Tuesday described an attack on a car carrying the country’s ambassador in Beijing as “very regrettable.” Ambassador Uichiro Niwa was unhurt in Monday’s incident but a man ripped off the ...

Today, Rhode Islanders observe the holiday known as Victory Day. I will spend a few minutes contemplating a World War II Japanese flag, collected on some forgotten Pacific island and brought home by ...

WWII veteran Marvin Strombo, right, and Tatsuya Yasue, 89-year-old farmer, hold a Japanese flag with autographed messages which was owned by his brother Sadao Yasue, who was killed in the Pacific ...

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 World ...

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.

SEOUL, South Korea -- Japan considers the "rising sun" flag part of its history. But some in the Koreas, China and other Asian countries say the flag is a reminder of Japan's wartime atrocities, and ...