A Los Angeles-based Japanese writer said Tuesday that she is searching for the family of a Japanese soldier killed in World War II to return a Japanese flag that was wrapped around his body.
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| Nobuko Iinuma holds up an old Japanese flag during a WW II memorial event in Los Angeles. |
Nobuko Iinuma, 68, a nonfiction writer from Shizuoka Prefecture, said her neighbor, Gold Mayer, a former U.S. soldier, had asked her 12 years ago to help him find the family of a Japanese soldier who died in battle in the Philippines in 1944.
Mayer, who was dispatched to the Philippines between August and December 1944, wanted to return to the family a Japanese flag that was wrapped around the dead soldier's body, Iinuma said.
Mayer, however, died 10 years ago before locating the family.