U.S., British veterans return Japanese flags to owners' kin

Japanese flags taken by U.S. and British soldiers from World War II battlefields were returned to the families of three Japanese soldiers at a ceremony Thursday in western Japan.The three soldiers from Shiga Prefecture were Takao Miyake, 22, Yoshiro Nakano, 28, and Yasuhei Nakajima, 25. Miyake and Nakano died in the Philippines while Nakajima died in India.Before the three left Japan for the war, their relatives and friends wrote their names and messages on the three flags.The families of the U.S. and British veterans who took the flags expressed their desire to return them to their owners …READ FULL ARTICLE