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Tokyo 2020: Why some people want the rising sun flag banned
Japan's national flag is simply a red disc on a white background - and no-one has a problem with that one. Getty Images Japanese soldiers during WWII and the country's modern-day navy The rising ...
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A 93-year-old World War II veteran returned a fallen Japanese soldier's flag to his family
World War II veteran Marvin Strombo traveled 10,000 miles from his quiet home in Montana to the land of the rising sun to personally return a Japanese flag he had taken from Sadao Yasue during the ...
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It’s a miracle, say family of Japanese soldier killed in WWII, as flag returns from U.S.
Toshihiro Mutsuda was only 5 years old when he last saw his father, who was drafted by ... The flag was donated in 1994 and displayed at the museum aboard the USS Lexington, a WWII aircraft ...
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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
As was customary during any visit to a foreign land, Perry’s flagship flew all of its colors, including a new hand-sewn, ...
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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 ... constitutional rights because as we’ve seen during World War II, the government made a decision to bypass the ...