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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mari Yamaguchi

It's a miracle, say family of Japanese soldier killed in WWII, as flag he carried returns from US

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Toshihiro Mutsuda was only 5 years old when he last saw his father, who was drafted by Japan's Imperial Army in 1943 and killed in action. For him, his father was a bespectacled man in an old family photo standing by a signed good-luck flag that he carried to war.

On Saturday, when the flag was returned to him from a U.S. war museum where it had been on display for 29 years, Mutsuda, now 83, said: “It's a miracle."

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