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 ...

Getty Images Japanese soldiers during WWII and the country's modern-day navy The rising sun flag has a similar red disc but with 16 red rays coming from it. Both flags have in fact been used for a ...

According to Japanese ... Rising Sun’. All of these things help explain why flag’s emblem is the Sun, and the earliest evidence that this is what it represents dates back to 1184. It’s red ...

noting that the flags were known in Japan as Yosegaki Hinomaru, interpreted as “a collection of writing under the red sun.” “Soldiers wore them in a pouch under their uniforms,” said Stein ...