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 ...

Japan's national flag is simply a red disc on a white background ... from the Nanjing campus of Johns Hopkins University. Chinese media is state-controlled and Beijing is currently working ...

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 ...

The latest politician to receive the high honour is Japan’s Prime ... While flying the flag for White House alum was former president Bill Clinton and former secretary of state Hilary Clinton.

State governors across the country also announced that state flags will be flown at half-staff ... that has since reigned ...

However, for the two Koreas, China, Myanmar, Malaysia, and other Asian nations, it is a symbol of the war atrocities committed by Japanese forces in the past. That is why flying the flag at the ...

This week, Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party and its ... were Nippon Kaigi-niks — the old imperial “Rising Sun” flag was flown, pledges to “break away from the postwar regime” were ...

NARUTO, Tokushima Prefecture--A little-known episode about hostilities between Japan and Germany during World War I turned up when a flag featuring ... of the German state of Saxony, early next ...

In December 1941, Hohlfeld and his squadron members were overtaken by Japanese forces and ... the same day flags will be lowered across the state. “It is our responsibility to make sure no ...

Japan's Yurika Omi (7) runs with the ball in the third-place match against Austria at the flag football world championships in Lahti, Finland, on Aug. 30, 2024. (Photo courtesy of Japan American ...

The 21-year-old from Milford was onboard the USS Oklahoma when it was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor and capsized during ...

Scott Stein mailed the flag to the OBON Society, which, after years of research, tracked down Hiyama's only surviving child, Tsukasa Hiyama, an 81-year-old man living on the Japanese island of Honshu.