Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family waved from a balcony window to throngs of New Year’s well-wishers, some shouting, “Banzai,” which means “long live,” while others waved small paper Japanese ...

Japan's national flag is simply a red disc on a white background ... Yet Japan's alleged inability to properly deal with its brutal imperial past "is not the fault of the Japan alone", he ...

it is identified as “kyokujitsuki”, and has many Japanese neighbors tormented since it was standard imperial navy when the invasions The rising sun flag is dear to the Japanese and part of its ...

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.

Some shouted “banzai” — “long live” — while others waved small paper Japanese flags ... the rules of male-only succession in the imperial family. Under current law, she will ...

Some shouted “banzai” - “long live” - while others waved small paper Japanese flags. “I feel for those ... rules of male-only succession in the imperial family. Under current law ...