For him, his father was a bespectacled man in an old family photo standing by a signed good-luck flag that ... central Japan, to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, where the 2.5 million war dead are ...
As such, it was flying during Japan's imperialist expansion when it occupied Korea and part of China. During World War Two, it became the flag of the navy - and that's largely where it got its ...
At the 2017 Antiques Roadshow in New Orleans, Arms & Militaria expert Jeff Shrader appraised this World War II-era flag — which ... that PT-109 collided with a Japanese destroyer and exploded?
Japan's Emperor Naruhito and his family greeted throngs of New Year's well-wishers from a balcony window at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Thursday. Some shouted “banzai” — “long live” — while ...