“It’s called a good luck flag — every Japanese soldier carried one into ... two years after he left to serve in the Imperial Army on the day Tsukasa was born. The family never received ...

Returning to Japan, Yanagi relinquished metropolitan life entirely, moving to the remote islands of Momoshima in the Seto ...

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.

An appraisal by the German House showed the flag is a war ensign of the S90, a torpedo boat of the German East Asia Squadron, which fought against Imperial Japanese armed forces in the Chinese ...