Governor Kazuo Ueda on Wednesday took in stride recent rises in bond yields, saying they were a natural reflection of market ...

Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya is arranging a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Canada later this ...

Japanese troops often carried small national flags signed in ink by their friends and family as tokens of good luck. “The yosegaki hinomaru stayed with the soldier until the very end ...

Ahead of anniv. of popular uprising against Japanese rule A Taegeukgi flag bearing an interpretation of the Jingwan Temple ...

Japan actually has two rising sun flags, one of them is the national emblem, “nisshoki” or “hinomaru” which means the origin of the sun (red circle on a white background) and which causes ...

The Japanese flag, or Hinomaru, has links with Jimmu ... perfect if you’ve forgotten to do the dishes. The Japanese national anthem's lyrics are based on an ancient form of poetry.

A potential foreign acquisition of Japanese retail giant Seven & i would be “heavily related” to national security, Japan’s economy minister Ryosei Akazawa said on Wednesday. His public ...

In 1944, Japanese authorities forcibly evacuated ... family through a newspaper article last spring. He thought, “A national flag is tantamount to love of your homeland. I want to return the ...

World War II veteran Marvin Strombo traveled 10,000 miles from his quiet home in Montana to the land of the rising sun to personally return a Japanese flag he had taken from Sadao Yasue during the ...