Online exhibit using a selection of objects from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History to illustrate the use and meaning of the flag during World War II. Shows how the flag, ...

Messages in Japanese were written on the silk around the bright red sun at its center. The words were meant for the World War II Japanese soldier who carried it with him to battle. Typically, ...

TOKYO — 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 a bespectacled man in an old ...

A man in New York inherited a “Yosegaki Hinomaru” banner, also known as a good luck flag, from his grandfather — who served the United States during World War II. Scott Stein told Fox News Digital in ...