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 ...

Returning to Japan, Yanagi relinquished metropolitan life entirely, moving to the remote islands of Momoshima in the Seto ...

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 ...

who was drafted by Japan's Imperial Army in 1943 and killed in action. For him, his father was a bespectacled man in an old family photo standing by a signed good-luck flag that he carried to war.