A flag carried by a Japanese soldier killed at work during World War II was turned over Thursday by the USS Lexington Museum in Texas to a not-for-profit company for return to the male’s family.
Known as a Good Luck Flag, it is covered with the trademarks of Shigeyoshi Mutsuda, his family and also good friends. The Corpus Christi gallery where it was presented for 29 years offered the flag to the Obon Society, a not-for-profit company that has actually returned regarding 500 comparable flags, referred to as non-biological human remains, to offspring of Japanese solution participants killed during the war.
“This is all that’s left of this man” to return to his family, stated Obon Society founderRex Ziak “They feel exactly the same as Americans when they receive the bones or teeth” of family members who were determined and also returned years after being killed in war, he …