Japan's Emperor Naruhito and his family greeted throngs of New Year's well-wishers from a balcony window at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Thursday.     Some shouted “banzai” — “long live” — while ...

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 ...

But what if a flag is so offensive to some countries it sparks a whole movement to get it banned? That is what's happening with Japan's rising sun flag and the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. And the ...

Japan Airlines reported a cyberattack on Thursday that resulted in delays for both domestic and international flights before ...

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.

People across the United States have been mailing Japanese flags to an office in Oregon. The banners are “heirlooms” kept by American families over the decades. Many are from World War Two ...

More than 60 people signed an American flag that bears more than 500 names of Japanese internment camp survivors during a ceremony at the Palo Alto Buddhist Temple on Aug. 15, 2021. Photo by ...