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 ...

Japan’s 'rising sun' flag is a focus of anger at the Tokyo Olympics, ... However, official outrage over history has diminished somewhat, while China’s political, ...

Chief Minister Thakur Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Saturday flagged off a 20-member Indian contingent for the Shitokai Goju-Ryu ...

Let’s take a look at five facts about that familiar dotted flag. 1) The official name of the flag of Japan is 日章旗 ("nisshoki," meaning “sun-mark flag”), but most people just call it 日の丸 ("hinomaru," ...

Flag football not only made its debut as an official event at the World Games. It also represented the first time in World Games or Olympics history that an adapted sport was included as a medal ...

After some controversy, the Hinomaru flag was made official alongside the country's national anthem, 'Kimigayo.' Subscribe . Digital Print . ... Japan Times 1999: Flag, anthem now official.

This official Star Wars Celebration T-shirt features the key art from the event, with Darth Vader superimposed over a graphic image inspired by the rising red “sun” seen on the Japanese flag ...

Bremyer left Japan on September 4, two days after the ceremony, with the flag in tow. He took a more circuitous route home, stopping in Saipan, Guam and San Francisco en route to Washington, where ...

Japan on Tuesday described an attack on a car carrying the country’s ambassador in Beijing as “very regrettable.” Ambassador Uichiro Niwa was unhurt in Monday’s incident but a man ripped ...

Japan Officially Passes Olympic Flag to France for Paris 2024 to Close Out Tokyo Games. ... At the official closing ceremony for the 2020 Tokyo Games on Sunday, ...

The flag was scooped up as a souvenir, taken back to America, and eventually returned to Pearl Harbor aboard the USS Missouri, where the war in the Pacific came to an official end.