Millions of Japanese soldiers carried the flags, known as yosegaki hinomaru or good-luck flags, bearing a red circle upon a white background where family, friends or co-workers wrote messages of ...

Japan, in World War II. Thinking individuals will be unsurprised to learn that the Enola Gay was not actually named after the sexual orientation. The plane was named after the mother of its pilot ...

In January, he visited Cardiff’s Principality Stadium, tweeting, “Rugby builds friendship between Japan and Wales!” and he also attended the England vs. Japan match at Twickenham last November.

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Japan is fighting a forest fire that has damaged dozens of homes and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate in a northeastern coastal city. The fire has burned about 2,100 hectares (5,190 acres ...

(From The Yomiuri Shimbun, Feb. 27, 2025) Add TheJapanNews to your Google News feed. Japan Oct.-Dec. GDP Revised Down to 2.2 Pct Annual Rise 150,000 Tons of Rice Released from Japan’s Stockpile to ...

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 ...

Despite such concerns, some schools around Japan did fly flags at half-staff or raised mourning flags. The flag at Takasaki High School, Nakasone’s alma mater in Gunma Prefecture, flew at half ...