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.
eight days after Japanese Emperor Hirohito announced his nation’s surrender, Bremyer’s superior at the Messenger Mail Center ...
Among them was a Japanese flag he found after the Battle of Luzon in the Philippines. As years passed, Thompson often expressed his desire to find the family of the Japanese solider who carried it ...
In 2001, Kuge’s second son, Toshiya, a 20-year-old sophomore at Waseda University ... and sewed it on the white fabric to create a Japanese flag. Kuge left the homemade flag among the countless ...