When Scott Stein was growing up in New York, he’d often visit his grandfather on Long Island and admire a Japanese flag hanging on the wall in his den. Bernard Stein never talked about his ...

But what if a flag is so offensive to some countries it sparks a whole movement to get it banned? That is what's happening with Japan's rising sun flag and the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. And the ...

However, for the two Koreas, China, Myanmar, Malaysia, and other Asian nations, it is a symbol of the war atrocities committed by Japanese forces in the past. That is why flying the flag at the ...

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 ...

A group of Japanese artists are hoping to help people embrace both the Olympic spirit and Japanese culture by reimagining flags of competing countries as samurai characters. Nations large and ...