“I hope the new flag will help us pass on accounts ... They made inquiries with museums across Japan and went through old books until they discovered what the original flag looked like.

U.S. Army veteran Chris Dorsey returns a WWII good luck flag to a fallen Japanese soldier’s family, bringing closure and unity across generations.

Two Long Island historical memorabilia collectors say they will turn over 41 flags carried by Japanese ... In 2022, they returned one through the Japanese Consulate in New York City, but said ...

who was drafted by Japan's Imperial Army in 1943 and killed in action. For him, his father was a bespectacled man in an old family photo standing by a signed good-luck flag that he carried to war.

and together they traced the flag back to Fumio Kudo, a young Japanese soldier who died at just 24 years old in the final days of World War II. Wanting to return the flag in person, Dorsey ...

World War II veteran Marvin Strombo traveled 10,000 miles from his quiet home in Montana to the land of the rising sun to personally return a Japanese flag he had taken from Sadao Yasue during the ...