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posted 2024-10-12 19:59
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staffPlease join us for a special Zoom presentation on Thursday, October 24th hosted by the USS Missouri. We recently received three Yosegaki Hinomaru during a Flag Transfer Ceremony held in the Captain's cabin on board USS Missouri in October 3rd. We hope to share our on going efforts to further deepen the people-to...
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posted 2024-10-04 18:50
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staffWWII Japanese flags given to group for return to soldiers' familiesThree Japanese flags kept at the Battleship Missouri Memorial in Hawaii have been donated to a group working to return World War Two relics to families of Japanese servicemen.The flags were entrusted to the memorial at Pearl Harbor by former US servi...
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posted 2024-10-04 17:45
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staff来年で第2次世界大戦の終結から80年となるのを前に、アメリカ ハワイの戦艦ミズーリ記念館に所蔵されていた日章旗3枚が3日、遺族に日章旗などを返還する活動をしている団体に引き渡されました。 引き渡されたのは、ハワイの戦艦ミズーリ記念館に所蔵されてきた寄せ書き入りの3枚の日章旗です。日章旗は3日、...
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posted 2024-09-27 18:00
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staff【BSS山陰放送】令和６年８月２５日に鳥取県日南の日南町役場で執り行われました「火山行一命日章旗返還」について「BSS山陰放送が」番組を放送して下さいました。 ー戦争に引き裂かれた親子 息子が生まれた日に出征し満州で戦死した父親…初めての遺品が約80年の時をこえて息子に返還ー...
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posted 2024-09-24 17:00
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staff令和６年８月２５日鳥取県日野郡日南町にて執り行われました「火山行一命日章旗返還」につきまして日南町の広報誌に記事が掲載されました。...
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posted 2024-09-23 05:00
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staffA Japanese Soldier’s Son Receives a Memento of His Father, Who Was Killed During World War II The so-called good-luck flag, which hung on an American veteran’s wall for many years, returned home last month after nearly eight decades On the day Asae Hiyama gave birth to a son, her husband left to serve in ...
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posted 2024-09-18 10:00
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staffMAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala. -- Like many World War II veterans, U.S. Army Cpl. Arthur G. Thompson, serving with the 117th Engineer Regiment, returned home with souvenirs from his time at war. Among them was a Japanese flag that he found after the Battle of Luzon in the Philippines. As years passed, Thompson...
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posted 2024-09-17 14:28
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staff滋賀県三日月知事が定例記者会見にて訪米視察時にＯＢＯＮソサエティ本部を訪問された時のことをお話しされています。 ーーOBONソサエティとの交流、これはもちろん滋賀県だけにとどまるものではありませんが、戦争遺留品を返還する活動をしていただいている、させていただいていることを、ぜひ今後さらに促進させてい...
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posted 2024-08-28 20:44
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staffA New York man spent seven years working with a nonprofit to find the family of a Japanese soldier A man in New York inherited a "Yosegaki Hinomaru" banner, also known as a good luck flag, from his grandfather — who served the United States during World War II. Scott Stein told Fox News Digital in an email ...
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posted 2024-08-27 17:30
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staffTOKYO — A Japanese flag, brought to America by a U.S. soldier who served in the Philippines during World War II, has returned home. The signature-covered flag was taken as a war trophy by the late Bernard Stein, who fought in the Philippines as a member of the U.S. Army’s 38th Infantry Division, known as the A...
