Getty Images Japanese soldiers during WWII and the country's modern-day navy The rising sun flag has a similar red disc but with 16 red rays coming from it. Both flags have in fact been used for a ...

Japan actually has two rising sun flags, one of them is the national emblem, “nisshoki” or “hinomaru” which means the origin of the sun (red circle on a white background) and which causes ...

noting that the flags were known in Japan as Yosegaki Hinomaru, interpreted as “a collection of writing under the red sun.” “Soldiers wore them in a pouch under their uniforms,” said Stein ...

Everywhere she went in the United States, she saw Stars and Stripes flags. It was surreal to her. She asked an employee of the Japanese consulate general for red and white fabrics and scissors.

His job was to rebuild roads and bridges destroyed buy the Japanese. This Japanese flag was amongst the things he brought back to Britain when he finally returned at the beginning of 1947.

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.

Josh Kobza has seen that consumer slowdown on his end of the fast-food chain. The chief executive of Restaurant Brands ...

During her journey to represent Vietnam at Miss International 2024, Thanh Thuy felt a wave of emotion upon seeing the Vietnamese flag raised by fans during her visit to Kaga, Japan. The beauty queen ...

“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...

Wildfires were burning from one end of New Jersey to the other on Friday after one of the driest months on record, leading ...

The internet has dubbed character traits like bad grammar and not drinking coffee as relationship red flags. I concur—as a perpetually caffeinated journalist living in New York City, the correct ...