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 ...

The white flag and red cross would serve both hospitals and ambulances as symbols of neutrality. Japan's Agreements Over the course of the next century, more qualifications and rules were added to ...

Millions of Japanese soldiers carried the flags, known as yosegaki hinomaru or good-luck flags, bearing a red circle upon a white background where family, friends or co-workers wrote messages of ...