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Rising Sun

By: Sophie Hammond, Kelly Suen
Narrated by: J. Wesley Price
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The flag of the rising sun, originally used throughout feudal Japan and during the Meiji Reformation, officially became a battle flag for the new imperial military. During the World War II and well before, the Empire of Japan used the rising sun flag for not just state use or functions but also naval jacks and army banners, cementing its image as a symbol for an aggressive and imperialist Japan. To many Koreans, Filipinos, Chinese, and countless Asian ethnicities, the rising sun flag occupied the same moral space as the swastika and the Nazi flag. Yet although Japan was also an axis power responsible for heinous war crimes, Japan did not seem to go through the same deep cultural cleansing of its officials and state symbols the way that Germany did following at the end of the war. The flag did not receive an official ban from the government or from the allied occupation forces.

The rising sun, although a symbol of the Japanese Empire, would see its official return again in 1954, when the Japan Self Defense Forces were officially founded following Soviet military and nuclear threats. Less than a decade earlier, it had been used for militaristic and imperialist motivations by an aggressive government seeking to build an empire and enrich itself by any means necessary. To many throughout the Asian continent, the rising sun symbolizes hostility and serving unwillingly to an empire. To many, it also brings images of comfort women, the Rape of Nanking, and the brutality of a warmongering military.

©2018 Pacific Atrocities Education (P)2019 Pacific Atrocities Education
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