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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama has died at age 101 in his home city of Oito. He was prime minister from ...
Japan’s former prime minister, who apologised for his country’s atrocities during the Second World War, has died aged 101.
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 ...