“It’s called a good luck flag — every Japanese soldier carried one into ... two years after he left to serve in the Imperial Army on the day Tsukasa was born. The family never received ...

Some shouted "banzai" — "long live" — while others waved small paper Japanese flags. "I feel for those ... rules of male-only succession in the imperial family. Under current law, she will ...

An appraisal by the German House showed the flag is a war ensign of the S90, a torpedo boat of the German East Asia Squadron, which fought against Imperial Japanese armed forces in the Chinese ...