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A Japanese flag finally returns home, 80 years after World War II
“It’s called a good luck flag — every Japanese soldier carried one into ... two years after he left to serve in the Imperial Army on the day Tsukasa was born. The family never received ...
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Japanese rising sun flag controversy in Tokyo Olympic Games
it is identified as “kyokujitsuki”, and has many Japanese neighbors tormented since it was standard imperial navy when the invasions The rising sun flag is dear to the Japanese and part of its ...
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Flag sheds light on 1914 sea battle Japan waged against Germany
An appraisal by the German House showed the flag is a war ensign of the S90, a torpedo boat of the German East Asia Squadron, which fought against Imperial Japanese armed forces in the Chinese ...
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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.