In 2007, Keiko Ziak's family experienced a "miracle."
Sixty-two years after the end of World War II, a Hinomaru national flag belonging to her grandfather, believed to have gone missing in Burma during the war, was returned to her family's home in Kyoto.
Many Japanese soldiers carried flags signed by friends and families into battle for good luck, but Allied Forces often took them from soldiers' bodies on the battlefield as keepsakes.