A flag carried by a Japanese soldier killed in action during World War II is returning to the man's family
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 Japanese good luck flag repatriation ceremony aboard the museum in Corpus Christi, Texas, Thursday, July 20, 2023.
Hirofumi Murabayashi, consul general of Japan in Houston, expressed appreciation to the museum for willingly handing over the flag and said the transfer symbolizes the friendship between the United States and Japan.“The only remains will come back to the family” to be reunited with his wife, who died in May at age 102, but whose funeral has been delayed until the flag is returned, Murabayashi said.
The signatures match those in a family photo of Mutsuda holding the flag and surrounded by family members before he left for war, Ziak said.“Often soldiers will search battlefields for sensitive information, like maps, and find flags and other things and collect them as souvenirs," Ziak said.
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