WWII Japanese soldier's flag brought back to wife

WWII Japanese soldier's flag brought back to wife

FUKUOKA, Japan - A Rising Sun flag, carried by former Japanese Imperial Army soldier Tokujiro Ogura during World War II, is given back to his wife Fumi (L) by Paul Parrott (C), a former British soldier's grandson, at the Tachiarai Peace Memorial Museum in Chikuzen, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on April 21, 2014.

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