Millions of Japanese soldiers carried the flags, known as yosegaki hinomaru ... Early in the war, they were made from silk. When that material was needed for parachutes, they were made from ...

NAGAHAMA, Shiga -- Production of silk strings for traditional Japanese instruments such as the shamisen and koto is at its ...

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.

With glass and silk butterflies adding to the decor and ... hard-to-miss banner depicting both the U.S. and Japanese flags hung from the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, located next to ...

It's a nonprofit that facilitates the reconciliation of families by returning "non-biological human remains," such as a flag, that were taken during times of war. Many Japanese soldiers carried ...

“We knew that the right thing to do would be to send the flag home, to be in Japan and to the family.” The soldier's eldest son, Toshihiro Mutsuda, was speechless for a few seconds when ...

The ceremony was held aboard the floating museum to repatriate a good luck flag from World War II back to the Mutsuda family in Japan. It will be delivered Saturday, July 29. The flag had hung ...