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 Finance Ministry will allow companies to make and sell goods related to Custom-kun, an official mascot character of Japan Customs. The ministry hopes that selling character goods such as ...

In the annual vote, the public nominated this kanji character after experiencing a number of natural disasters. Japan has suffered flooding, typhoons, earthquakes and heatwaves in 2018 ...

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.

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 ...