TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Jan. 27 expressed her desire to establish a new criminal offense for damaging or defiling the Japanese national flag as she kicked off her first ...

TOKYO — A Japanese flag, brought to America by a U.S. soldier who served in the Philippines during World War II, has returned home. The signature-covered flag was taken as a war trophy by the late ...

Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, buoyed by a commanding majority in the powerful lower house after this month’s election, is poised to revive one of her longest-standing conservative causes: ...