For Scott Stein, the act of returning the flag felt like fulfilling a larger purpose. (Representational) Scott Stein had always admired the Japanese flag that hung in his grandfather's den on Long ...

The words were meant for the World War II Japanese soldier who carried it with him to battle. Typically, relatives, neighbors and schoolmates signed the flags. An untold number of them became ...

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.

she said the OBON Society has returned more than 600 World War II-era Japanese flags to soldiers’ families. She estimates there are probably another 50,000 good luck flags still unaccounted for ...