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.

When Scott Stein was growing up in New York, he’d often visit his grandfather on Long Island and admire a Japanese flag hanging on the wall in his den. Bernard Stein never talked about his combat ...

TOKYO — A Japanese flag, brought to America by a U.S. soldier who served in the Philippines during World War II, has returned home. The signature-covered flag was taken as a war trophy by the late ...

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 ...

JAPAN, — A World War II-era "good luck" flag has finally made its way home, thanks to the kindness and determination of U.S. Army veteran Chris Dorsey. Dorsey, from Dahlonega, Georgia, was going ...

TOKYO — A Japanese flag, brought to America by a U.S. Navy sailor from the Battle of Okinawa, has been returned to the family of the soldier who carried it into battle more than three quarters of a ...

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 (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, ...

A flag carried by a Japanese soldier killed in action during World War II was handed over today by the USS Lexington Museum in Texas to a nonprofit organization for return to the man’s family. Known ...

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.