"No name" person

When I was 10, my grandfather gave me a Japanese flag from World War 2. He told me about how he got drafted, which wasn’t uncommon for 19 year old farmers who weren’t attending school (he dropped out after the first semester of college). He was stationed in the Philippines, where a lot of the combat between the Japanese and Americans occurred. He told me it was a souvenir of his time spent fighting in the great world war.

To this day I have no idea of how he came across the flag. He has since passed, and my questioning other family members has turned up nothing. It is ironic that now that I am curious as to what happened, I cannot know, whereas when he told me I would be too young to understand.

My grandmother told me it was probably just an item confiscated by the Allies after their victory in 1945. But who knows? Maybe he found it and took it as loot after raiding a Japanese naval base. Or perhaps the flag serves as a memory of a fallen comrade. My guess is he probably found it and brought it back to show his grandchildren one day and tell them how he was part of the Second World War. I cannot imagine my grandfather taking the flag unless he found it or it was given to him, but maybe this is only because the only way I knew him was as a quiet old man.