U.S. veteran returns dead Japanese soldier’s flag

Higashishirakawa, Japan • Tatsuya Yasue buried his face into the flag and smelled it. Then he held the 93-year-old hands that brought this treasure home, and kissed them.Marvin Strombo, who had taken the calligraphy-covered Japanese flag from a dead soldier at World War II island battlefield 73 years ago, returned it Tuesday to the family of Sadao Yasue. They had never gotten his body or — until that moment — anything else of his.Yasue and Tatsuya’s sister Sayoko Furuta, 9