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The Rising Sun Flag (Japanese: 旭日 旗, Hepburn: Kyokujitsu-ki) is a Japanese flag that consists of a red disc and sixteen red rays emanating from the disc. [1] Like the Japanese national flag, the Rising Sun Flag symbolizes the Sun. The flag was originally used by feudal warlords in Japan during the Edo period (1603–1868 CE). [2]
Flag of Japan. The national flag of Japan is a rectangular white banner with a crimson-red circle at its center. The flag is officially called the Nisshōki (日章旗, 'flag of the sun') but is more commonly known in Japan as the Hinomaru (日の丸, 'Ball of the sun'). It embodies the country's sobriquet: the Land of the Rising Sun.
Imperial standard of the wife of the heir imperial son and the wife of the imperial grandson. A pennant of the standard of the heir imperial son. 2020–present. Imperial standard of the crown prince if not the son of the emperor. A gold 16-petaled chrysanthemum centered on a white background with a red orle and border. 1926–present.
Regional indicator symbol. The regional indicator symbols are a set of 26 alphabetic Unicode characters (A–Z) intended to be used to encode ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 two-letter country codes in a way that allows optional special treatment. These were defined by October 2010 as part of the Unicode 6.0 support for emoji, as an alternative to encoding ...
Rising Sun Flag: Naval Ensign of Japan: Flag of the Japan Self-Defense Forces and the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force: Japan Self-Defense Forces Naval Ensign of Japan: National personification: Amaterasu [citation needed] Amaterasu: National founder: Emperor Jimmu (神武天皇 Jinmu-tennō) Emperor Jimmu: National dish: Sushi, Japanese curry ...
Flags of Japanese prefectures. Each modern Japanese prefecture has a unique flag, most often a bicolour geometric highly stylised design, often incorporating the characters of the Japanese writing system and resembling minimalistic company logos. [1] The heraldic badges worn by warriors in medieval Japan (mon) were forerunners of the modern ...
Flag of Manchukuo. Propaganda art of children with Manchukuo, Japanese and Five Races Under One Union flags. Picture taken aboard the PR Ting Pien with Manchukuo naval ensign. The flag of the Empire of Manchuria had a yellow field with four horizontal stripes of different colours in the upper-left corner. The colours of the flag were based on ...
The Empire of Japan, [ c ] also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was the Japanese nation-state [ d ] that existed from the Meiji Restoration on 3 January 1868 until the Constitution of Japan took effect on 3 May 1947. [ 8 ] From 1910 to 1945, it included the Japanese archipelago, the Kurils, Karafuto, Korea, and Taiwan.