TOKYO -- An amendment to Japan's Penal Code to introduce the crime of damaging the national flag with the intent to insult ...

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its junior coalition partner Nippon Ishin (the Japan Innovation Party) put ...

A flag carried by a Japanese soldier killed in action during World War II was handed over Thursday by the USS Lexington Museum in Texas to a nonprofit organization for return to the man’s family.

Japanese flags were given to soldiers during World War II. Those in Mount Pleasant’s Patriots Point Maritime Museum collection are finding their way home.

Neil is KSBY's Senior Reporter and anchor of KSBY News Daybreak. He's one of your dedicated community reporters for the City of San Luis Obispo. Japanese good-luck flags from World War II, and the ...

LITTLE TOKYO, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Veterans in Little Tokyo are taken aback after surveillance video caught a thief stealing the American flag at a local monument. The theft happened about 9:30 p.m.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo Olympic organizers said on Friday that the display of Japan's "Rising Sun" does not constitute a political statement and a spokesman said there were no plans to ban the ...

South Korea has formally asked the International Olympic Committee to ban the Japanese “rising sun” flag at next year’s Tokyo Games, calling it a symbol of Japan’s brutal wartime past and comparing it ...

The Tokyo Olympics officially kicked off in a virtually empty stadium Friday night after a yearlong delay due to the pandemic. As the Games face the ongoing threat of Covid-19, with the Japanese ...

A flag carried by a Japanese soldier killed in action during World War II was handed over today by the USS Lexington Museum in Texas to a nonprofit organization for return to the man’s family. Known ...