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A Japanese flag finally returns home, 80 years after World War II
she said the OBON Society has returned more than 600 World War II-era Japanese flags to soldiers’ families. She estimates there are probably another 50,000 good luck flags still unaccounted for ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN2mon
To Mark Japan's Surrender at the End of World War II, This Navy Officer Raced Halfway Around the World With a Historic Flag in Tow
By the time World War II ended in September 1945 ... [that] was the first American flag hoisted over Japanese soil.” The ...
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Japanese rising sun flag controversy in Tokyo Olympic Games
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 ...
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It’s a miracle, say family of Japanese soldier killed in WWII, as flag returns from U.S.
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.
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A flag carried by a Japanese soldier killed during World War II is returning to his family
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 ...
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Tokyo 2020: Why some people want the rising sun flag banned
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 ...
Palo Alto Weekly3y
Flag project recalls Japanese internment camps, one signature at a time
More than 60 people signed an American flag that bears more than 500 names ... They lost everything, he said, and ended up moving to Japan once the war ended. The move was particularly hard ...
PBS11mon
Japan, POWs and the Geneva Conventions
White Flag and Red Cross In 1864 ... observe the Hague Convention of 1907 outlining the laws and customs of war. That Japanese forces did not strictly follow the Geneva Conventions is hardly ...
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We salute the USS Ronald Reagan for rocking its battle flag on its way back to port
The USS Ronald Reagan returned to its homeport of Yokosuka, Japan over the weekend after a ... aircraft carrier flying its distinctive battle flag of twin sabers crossed over the number 76 on ...
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Japan's ruling bloc loses lower house majority, a red flag for PM
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is pictured during a media interview at the headquarters of his ruling Liberal Democratic Party in Tokyo on Oct. 27, 2024, as the party is set to lose its ...
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Global leaders congratulate Trump but his victory looks set to roil the world — again
The leaders of Australia, New Zealand and Japan all congratulated U.S. President-elect Donald ... the phone to discuss North ...
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Ishiba's Election Setback Raises Red Investor Flags Over Japan
(MENAFN- Asia Times) Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party ... Global South Russia blurring lines between physical and cyber war on the West The question now is not just whether Ishiba can ...