Daily Herald

It's a miracle, say family of Japanese soldier as Good Luck Flag he carried returns from U.S.

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 an old ...
Stars and Stripes

Sole memento: American vet’s grandson returns WWII souvenir to Japanese son

TOKYO — 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 ...
KTRE

It’s a miracle, say family of Japanese soldier killed in WWII, as flag he carried returns from US

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 ...
The Washington Post

A Japanese soldier’s flag hung in a U.S. museum. It finally came home.

Toshihiro Mutsuda was making preparations for his mother’s funeral in late March when he made a miraculous discovery. His mother, Masae, had lived a long and full life. But most of those 102 years had ...
KOAT Albuquerque

'It's a miracle': Flag that slain Japanese soldier carried in WWII returns from US

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 old family ...