Flags aren’t just about politics - they’re about people. In Denmark and Norway, families deck their homes and cakes with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- A World War II veteran who's returning a battlefield flag to the family of a long-dead Japanese soldier has arrived in Tokyo. Marvin Strombo landed Friday after flying from Portland, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.