Family of Japanese soldier killed in WWII sought

Family of Japanese soldier killed in WWII sought

LOS ANGELES, United States - Nobuko Iinuma, a 68-year-old writer based in Los Angeles, holds a bloodstained Japanese flag as she speaks at an event in a Los Angeles suburb commemorating the 55th anniversary of the end of World War II on Aug. 14. Iinuma said her neighbor, Gold Mayer, had asked her to help him find the family of a Japanese soldier who died in battle in the Philippines in 1944. Mayer found the flag wrapped around the dead soldier's body.

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