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Oct 26, 2019
Hello,
My family has had this flag for a while. I was hoping someone could help me with translating it and maybe even authenticating it.
It supposedly has Hideki Tojo's signature on it, or at least that's what the paper on the back seems to imply.
Sorry the pictures aren't great. If it helps I can try to take some better ones.
 

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It can be read like this -

久長運武
(武運長久) Good long fortune in battle

陸軍第
五師団
本部
(陸軍第五師団本部) Army 5th Division Headquarters

歩兵第三師 3rd infantry (regiment?)

東條英機 Tojo, Hideki

野川秀淳(?) Nogawa, Hideatsu

司令長官 Commander in chief

忠勇 Loyalty and bravery

連絡士(?) Messenger

小機(磯?)首相 Prime Minister Koiso

盡忠報国 Loyalty and patriotism

昭和十九年 Showa 19th year (1944)

陸軍第
五師団
(陸軍第五師団) Army 5th Division

通信隊 Communication unit

Seals in red: 拾銭 Jussen (producer's name)

This flag looks one of the authentic souvenir flags sold to the GIs in Japan in the late 1940s.
Probably produced in Hiroshima because the IJA 5th Division was located there.
Here are some other similar flags introduced in this forum before. Words were almost common.

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