Getting this flag back means more to them than just receiving an heirloom. It’s like bringing Sadao’s ... a time where Japanese families travel back to their place of origin to spend time ...

A U.S. Army colonel’s great-grandson returned a “good luck” flag Wednesday to the family of a Japanese soldier who carried it ...

The Japanese government argues that both flags have been flown by the country well before any international conflicts and even fishermen when have a good catch like to fly the flag with the sun ...

“When we learned all of this, and that the family would like to have the flag ... the right thing to do would be to send the flag home, to be in Japan and to the family.” ...

Japan's flag is white with a red circle in the middle ... I was confident I hadn't made any mistakes. But it felt more like a start than an end for me," he says. And 56 years on he's still ...