Japan - Some Tokyo residents urged Japan's newly elected leadership to tackle corruption head-on and take meaningful steps to ...

South Korea wants it banned at the games - but the 2020 organisers say the flag is "widely used in Japan" and is "not a political statement". Japan's national flag is simply a red disc on a white ...

Donald Trump's return to the White House is likely to make Japan reluctant to raise potentially controversial proposals ...

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 ... on display at the National September 11 ...

In 1944, Japanese authorities forcibly evacuated ... family through a newspaper article last spring. He thought, “A national flag is tantamount to love of your homeland. I want to return the ...

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 ...

This week, Japan’s ... “Rising Sun” flag was flown, pledges to “break away from the postwar regime” were made, and the (very short and controversial) imperial national anthem was sung.

Among them was a Japanese flag that he found after the Battle of ... They were recommended by both the National Infantry ...

A government report on Tuesday showed that the number of suicides among elementary, junior high and high school students in ...

The national flag of Japan (R) is hoisted next to the Olympic flag (L) during the Olympic Flame handover ceremony for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens ...

Japan’s two largest carriers are seeing slower-than-expected recovery on their Mainland China network, echoing a sentiment ...

One of his two flags will go to the Japanese American Museum of San Jose. He is working with the National Japanese American Museum in Los Angeles on the second flag. And with the number of ...