Veterans to celebrate the 80th Anniversary of the First U.S. Flag Raised on Iwo Jima Japan in Monticello Sunday.

[that] was the first American flag hoisted over Japanese soil.” The description briefly mentions the flag’s role in Japan’s ...

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 U.S. Army colonel’s great-grandson returned a “good luck” flag Wednesday to the family of a Japanese soldier who carried it ...

012725_GC_BataanFlags02rgb.jpg An image of a quartered Japanese flag from the Fukuoka Prison Camp 17, which held soldiers who survived the Bataan Death March. Both the American flag and the piece ...

Japanese troops often carried small national flags signed in ink by their friends ... “In my spiritual life, I practice the ways of my Native American ancestors,” he said during the ceremony.