Photos of Masashi Ito (left) and Cpl. Lowell Armstrong (right) sit on display with a Japanese war flag during a flag return ceremony in Takasaki, Japan, Feb. 14. (Obon Society) An airman traveled to ...

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 ...

Herb McDougall, 88, discovered the flag in combat during the Battle of Okinawa. TOKYO July 31, 2013 — -- Writings on a tattered flag have tugged at Herb McDougall for 68 years. The flag, stained ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...