Two Long Island historical memorabilia collectors say they will turn over 41 flags carried by Japanese servicemen in World ...

An artisan in the port city of Choshi, near Tokyo, is busy this season. He is hard at work coloring traditional flags offered as spring gifts to people who are starting a new stage in their life.

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 ...

TAKETA CITY, Japan — A U.S. Army colonel’s great-grandson returned a “good luck” flag Wednesday to the nephew of a Japanese soldier who carried it into battle during World War II.

At 100 years old, Dick Jessor remembers the moments when he and his fellow Marines landed on Iwo Jima and the hope he felt ...