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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...