NEWCASTLE UNITED have apologised for including a flag that could “inadvertently cause offence” in the promotional video for ...

Newcastle have removed a video launching the club's newest kit after a flag resembling that of Imperial Japan was visible in the advert.

Researchers found a World War II-era "good luck flag" that belonged to a Japanese soldier in a Texas museum. They returned it to his family in a Tokyo ceremony.

Bernard Stein never talked about his combat experiences in Southeast Asia during World War II, but he’d brought the flag home as a war trophy after fighting with the U.S. Army’s 38th Infantry ...

The flag belonging to Shigeyoshi Mutsuda was returned to his son from a U.S. war museum where it had been on display for 29 ... who was drafted by Japan's Imperial Army in 1943 and killed in action.

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. “I feel for those who are still greatly ...

TOKYO — Toshihiro Mutsuda was only 5 years old when he last saw his father, who was drafted by Japan's Imperial Army in 1943 and killed in action. For him, his father was a bespectacled man in ...

However, the flag is also associated with Imperial Japan, which waged war in the Pacific during World War II, and with Japan’s colonization of the Korean Peninsula from 1910 to 1945.

TOKYO (AP) — Toshihiro Mutsuda was only 5 years old when he last saw his father, who was drafted by Japan’s Imperial Army in 1943 and killed in action. For him, his father was a bespectacled man in an ...

TOKYO (AP) — Toshihiro Mutsuda was only 5 years old when he last saw his father, who was drafted by Japan’s Imperial Army in 1943 and killed in action. For him, his father was a bespectacled man in an ...

Toshihiro Mutsuda was only five years old when he last saw his father, who was drafted by Japan’s Imperial Army in 1943 and killed in action.