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Today we will be speaking with Tom Prall in our series of collector interviews.  I have known Tom for quite some time, having first met …

“I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions.  I don’t see it as the handing …

“Today we will be talking to John Egger of White Tiger Military about how he first established an interest in collecting Japanese military relics of …

(I wrote this article for the Japanese military collector journal, “Banzai”. I recently updated it and have posted it to FOWM.) Nearly every collector or …

This vintage wartime photo shows a man posing outside, his “Good Luck Flag” or Hinomaru Yosegaki suspended from a wooden pole. Notice the thick and bold vertical kanji ideograms that characterize this

The World War Two era Imperial Japanese Good Luck Flag was a gift given to a departing soldier, sailor, or airman.