The Japanese flag is seen in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Aug. 15, 2025. (Mainichi/Kimitaka Takeichi) The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its junior coalition partner Nippon Ishin (the Japan ...

In August 1945, John K. Bremyer undertook a 124-hour, 9,000-mile journey to Tokyo Bay, where he delivered the flag flown by Commodore Matthew Perry in 1853 to Admiral William Halsey’s USS “Missouri” ...

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 ...

Toshihiro Mutsuda was making preparations for his mother’s funeral in late March when he made a miraculous discovery. His mother, Masae, had lived a long and full life. But most of those 102 years had ...

A Japanese warship will raise the Rising Sun flag during an upcoming multinational exercise in South Korea, Japan’s defense minister said Friday. The Maritime Self-Defense Force — Japan’s navy — “will ...

TOKYO -- An amendment to Japan's Penal Code to introduce the crime of damaging the national flag with the intent to insult the country is becoming a realistic possibility under Prime Minister Sanae ...

TOKYO >> Toshihiro Mutsuda was only 5 years old when he last saw his father, 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 ...