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.

“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 ...

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. On ...

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.

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.

Some shouted “banzai” - “long live” - while others waved small paper Japanese flags. “I feel for those ... rules of male-only succession in the imperial family. Under current law ...

After inheriting the flag from his grandfather ... her husband left to serve in the Imperial Japanese Army. It was the summer of 1943, and the young couple had been married for a year.

Marines fighting on Iwo Jima scaled Mount Suribachi and worked together to push up an American flag, a moment that ... victory over Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in World War II.

"I feel the weight of the flag." 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 ...