South Korea wants it banned at the games - but the 2020 organisers say the flag is "widely used in Japan" and is "not a political statement". Japan's national flag is simply a red disc on a white ...

Japan - Some Tokyo residents urged Japan's newly elected leadership to tackle corruption head-on and take meaningful steps to ...

In 1944, Japanese authorities conscripted 825 male ... He knew all about hardships from the early postwar period. “A national flag is tantamount to love of your homeland,” he recalled thinking.

Japan actually has two rising sun flags, one of them is the national emblem, “nisshoki” or “hinomaru” which means the origin of the sun (red circle on a white background) and which causes ...

Among them was a Japanese flag that he found after the Battle of ... They were recommended by both the National Infantry ...

In 1944, Japanese authorities forcibly evacuated ... family through a newspaper article last spring. He thought, “A national flag is tantamount to love of your homeland. I want to return the ...