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

More than 60 people signed an American flag that bears more than 500 names of Japanese internment camp survivors during a ceremony at the Palo Alto Buddhist Temple on Aug. 15, 2021. Photo by ...

Several weeks earlier, the Palawan Massacre took place in the Philippines, where 139 American POWs were killed by Japanese ...

However, when the United States went to war with Japan in 1941, Nathaniel’s grandson, who was Takashi’s grandfather, and other family members burned Perry's American flag for fear of persecution.

Toshiya loved American sports and culture ... from the red fabric and sewed it on the white fabric to create a Japanese flag. Kuge left the homemade flag among the countless U.S. flags at the ...

The museum will showcase flags central to the liberation of American soldiers who were kept prisoners of war following the ...

The Japanese Occupation (1945-1951) On the morning of September 8, 1945, General Douglas MacArthur made his way by automobile toward the American Embassy ... our country's flag unfurled, and ...

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 ...

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 ...