Researchers found a World War II-era "good luck flag" that belonged to a Japanese soldier in a Texas museum. They returned it to his family in a Tokyo ceremony.

HIGASHISHIRAKAWA, Japan — Tatsuya Yasue buried his face into the flag and smelled it. Then he held the 93-year-old hands that brought this treasure home, and kissed them.

This flag belonged to Japanese soldier Masamoto Abe during World War II. It was taken after his death by Allied soldiers and has been kept in the Gold Bar Veterans of Foreign Wars hall for many years.

The World War II U.S. Marine veteran’s son presented the flag to the Grand Rapids Public Museum as a donation in 2015, and it was recently given to a family member of the Japanese soldier.

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.

World War II veteran Marvin Strombo returned a Japanese flag to the family of the fallen soldier he recovered it from more than 70 years ago. Strombo, 93, who was part of an elite U.S. Marines ...

Now, Ventura resident Tom Hodges hopes the flag his father sent home during the war can be returned to the soldier’s family in Japan. Hodges, 85, had been trying to find someone to take the flag ...

HIGASHISHIRAKAWA, Japan — The former U.S. Marine knew the calligraphy-covered flag he took from a fallen Japanese soldier 73 years ago was more than a keepsake of World War II.

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 ...

Japan’s “rising sun” flag is a focus of anger at the Olympics, with some in the Koreas, China and other Asian nations calling for it to be banned.