NARUTO, Tokushima Prefecture--A little-known episode about hostilities between Japan and Germany during World War I turned up when a flag featuring an unfamiliar design of a black cross and ...

It was an old Asahi Shimbun company flag that once belonged to her grandfather ... useful perspectives on and insights into contemporary Japan and its culture.

People across the United States have been mailing Japanese flags to an office in Oregon. The banners are “heirlooms” kept by American families over the decades. Many are from World War Two ...