Rising sun image

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ghettocities

Sempai

16 Jun 2002

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• 27 Sep 2003

• #1

Does anyone know why Japan has the regular red and white flag but then also they've got the Rising Sun one where it was what looks like red sun-rays shooting out from the main red circle of the flag? Does it represent anything? Probably something used in war huh?

Thanks,

Josh

 

Grandpa Frank

Sempai

Admin

Twenty-year veteran

21 May 2003

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• 27 Sep 2003

• #2

War Flag

I was told the flag with red rays was military.

Frank

 

jeisan

Kongming

24 Feb 2003

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• 27 Sep 2003

• #3

i thought that they took the rays of after WWII...

 

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bz_jpn

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24 Aug 2003

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• 27 Sep 2003

• #4

The white flag with a red circle was adopted as National flag in the Meiji era. In comparison, the flag which has a red circle and 16 rays were used by the Japanese Imperial Navy as warship flag. But during WWII Japanese Army also used this. And now it is used by Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force as you see in the picture below.

 

jeisan

Kongming

24 Feb 2003

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• 27 Sep 2003

• #5

oh i see, kinda like australia has 2 flags one for the land, the main one that you see, and the other for sea, its red instead of blue around the stars.

 

maji

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13 Aug 2003

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• 27 Sep 2003

• #6

I think http://www.worldmap.com has a lot of information about country flags as well

 

Eisuke

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28 Nov 2003

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• 11 Dec 2003

• #7

The difference between the Japanese Navy flag is that the is sun slightly more to the left, while the Japanese Army flag has the sun in the centre.