A flag carried by a Japanese soldier killed in action during World War II was handed over Thursday by the USS Lexington Museum in Texas to a nonprofit organization for return to the man’s family.

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 ...

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 ...

Co-founder and president of OBON Society Rex Ziak, left, and USS Lexington Museum on the Bay's executive director Steve Banta display Japanese soldier Shigeyoshi Mutsuda's good luck flag during a ...

USS Lexington Museum executive director Steve Banta, left, and Toshihiro Mutsuda hold the good luck flag of Mutsuda's father, Japanese soldier Shigeyoshi Mutsuda, during a handover ceremony at ...

After being apart for about 80 years, a husband and wife will finally be reunited and buried together in Japan. The process began with an emotional ceremony Thursday on Corpus Christi's waterfront ...