posted 2024-12-02 10:00
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staffこの度、日本遺族会や埼玉県遺族連合会、小鹿野町社会福祉協議会の関係者を始め、多くの方々のご協力の元、ご遺族(兵士孫たち)が判明し、日章旗を返還する事が出来ました。飯塚 槌良様の日章旗は、米国、ミシガン州在住の米国人（ケビン・ロバーツさん）が、元米兵のお祖父様が戦地から持ち帰られ大切に保管されていたの...
posted 2024-11-30 09:37
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staffOBON SOCIETY extends our heartfelt thanks to Christina and her colleagues at The Mining and Rollo Jamison Museum in Platteville, Wisconsin, for their generous donation of two flags. We are deeply grateful for the care and respect they showed, from the thoughtful packaging to the send-off. What an incredible team the museu...
posted 2024-11-23 16:17
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staff捜索班の工藤です。令和６年１１月２２日に「曹洞宗」の北海道管区内の婦人会研修会にて講演をさせて頂きました。聴衆は皆さま所謂お坊さんでした。 昨年の７月に北海道松前町にて行った【鈴木秀二命日章旗返還式】に参列頂いた同町【法幢時】の御住職より「研修会の講師として日章旗返還活動についてお話して欲しい」とご...
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...
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 ...
