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

And blue wasn't the most difficult color. "The hardest was actually the one used in our own flag -- red," he says. Japan's flag is white with a red circle in the middle. But until 1999 there was ...

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 ...