The official flag of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces, the successor to the Japanese imperial military that fought alongside the Axis powers of World War II, remains the Rising Sun Flag used by ...

But disputes about the "rising sun" flag date back to the early part of the 20th century. That's when Japan's imperial navy used ... experienced Japan's wartime military aggression, similar ...

Just a flag - or a symbol of imperial terror? Fans cheering in a stadium and waving a flag is a staple sight at any international sports event. But what if a flag is so offensive to some countries ...

SEOUL — Japan considers the “rising sun” flag ... disputes about the flag with radiating rays date back to the early part of the 20th century. That’s when Japan’s imperial navy used ...

The "Rising Sun" flag has been used by Japan for centuries and is still used by the Asian nation's military Self-Defense Forces. The flag was also the symbol used by Japan's Imperial Army and Navy ...

also known as the “war crime flag” among some South Koreans, is often associated with World War Two, the Imperial Japanese Army, and Japan’s 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean peninsula.

I immediately recognized that the image on the poster was the Japanese imperial flag, otherwise known as the Rising Sun flag. I couldn’t believe what I was looking at. On a campus that strives ...

A salute South Korean sailors rendered to the “rising sun ... 1910 to 1945 and its military aggression during World War II, when the Japanese Imperial Navy flew the flag.

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A Japanese warship will raise the Rising Sun flag during an upcoming ... However, the flag is also associated with Imperial Japan, which waged war in the Pacific during World War II, and with ...