The other has the red circle with 16 expanding beams, it is identified as “kyokujitsuki”, and has many Japanese ... rising sun flag is dear to the Japanese and part of its history.

A U.S. Army colonel’s great-grandson returned a “good luck” flag Wednesday to the family of a Japanese soldier who carried it ...

“It’s history, but we don’t want to repeat it ... Last October, a military museum in the US repatriated a Japanese flag that had been displayed for many years. The New Mexico Military ...

And blue wasn't the most difficult color. "The hardest was actually the one used in our own flag -- red," he says. Japan's flag is white with a red circle in the middle. But until 1999 there was ...

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.