Japanese Imperial Flag Offensive

That is what s happening with japan s rising sun flag and the tokyo 2020 olympics.

Japanese imperial flag offensive. The national flag of japan is a rectangular white banner bearing a crimson red disc at its center. The rising sun flag refers to the flag of imperial japan s military particularly the imperial japanese navy during and before world war ii. For the japanese right flying the rising sun flag is part of a collective effort to cleanse the history of imperial japan s aggression during the second world war. The flags were used until japan s surrender in world war ii during august 1945.

It was adopted as the naval ensign in 1870. If i wore a shirt with a swastika in japan they wouldn t be offended but if i wore it in poland or russia i d be lynched. We have many far right groups that use nazi imagery in contemporary times. The imperial japanese army and the imperial japanese navy both had a version of the flag.

The jasdf uses the hinomaru as its roundel but its flag has nothing to do with the rising sun. Now the rising sun flag was originally used by the japanese feudal lords back in the edo period 1603 1868 and adopted as the flag of the japanese imperial army during the meji restoration in 1870 and added to the japanese navy in 1889. The nisshōki flag is designated as the national flag in the act on national. The hinomaru is still the national flag of japan.

Couple this with the fact that not many western schools focus on japanese atrocities versus german. If i wore a shirt with the imperial japanese flag here in italy no one would object but if i wore it in china or korea they d kill me. The flag used by the jsdf as a whole and the jgsdf is the imperial army s flag with 8 rays instead of 16 and a gold border added around the outside. But what if a flag is so offensive to some countries it sparks a whole movement to get it banned.

Land of the rising sun. So yeah it would be offensive to wear such a shirt. The naval ensign was off set with the red sun closer to the lanyard side while the army s version which was part of the regimental colors was centered. This flag is officially called nisshōki 日章旗 the flag of sun but is more commonly known in japan as hinomaru 日の丸 the circle of the sun it embodies the country s sobriquet.