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 ...

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.

"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 Banta ...

TAKETA CITY, Japan — A U.S. Army colonel’s great-grandson returned a “good luck” flag Wednesday to the nephew of a Japanese soldier who carried it into battle during World War II.

His grandfather, Bernard Stein, served in World War II between 1942 and 1945 at ... in 2017 after he saw news of a similar flag being brought back to Japan. Stein did research and found the ...

TOKYO — A Japanese flag, brought to America by a U.S. soldier who served in the Philippines during World War II, has returned home. The signature-covered flag was taken as a war trophy by the ...

Toshihiro Mutsuda was only 5 years old when he last saw his father, 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 ...

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.

For Scott Stein, the act of returning the flag felt like fulfilling a larger purpose. (Representational) Scott Stein had always admired the Japanese flag that hung in his grandfather's den on Long ...