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 ...

His job was to rebuild roads and bridges destroyed buy the Japanese. This Japanese flag was amongst the things he brought back to Britain when he finally returned at the beginning of 1947.

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 ...