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.

NARUTO, Tokushima Prefecture--A little-known episode about hostilities between Japan and Germany during World War I turned up when a flag featuring an unfamiliar design of a black cross and ...

China was weak and Japan had an interest in acquiring land for herself. Japanese negotiations to avoid war were ignored by Tsarist officials and hence the war began. Japanese troops storm a ...