SEOUL — Japan considers the “rising sun” flag part of its history. But some in the Koreas, China and other Asian countries say the flag is a reminder of Japan’s wartime atrocities ...

SEOUL, South Korea -- Japan considers the "rising sun" flag part of its history. But some in the Koreas, China and other Asian countries say the flag is a reminder of Japan's wartime atrocities ...

I immediately recognized that the image on the poster was the Japanese imperial flag, otherwise known as the Rising Sun flag. I couldn’t believe what I was looking at. On a campus that strives ...

The Rising Flag Sun is flown aboard the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's Osumi LST-class amphibious transport dock ship Kunisaki, May 27, 2014, in Yokosuka, Japan. The flag's controversial ...

On Thursday, military Chief of Staff Katsutoshi Kawano said the rising sun flag is the Maritime Self-Defense Force sailors' "pride" and "we absolutely do not go if we have to remove the flag." ...

A Japanese warship will raise the Rising Sun flag during an upcoming multinational exercise in South Korea, Japan’s defense minister said Friday. The Maritime Self-Defense Force — Japan’s ...

That’s why the flag has created anger at the Olympics, with some of […] SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Japan considers the “rising sun” flag part of its history.

That’s why the flag has created anger at the Olympics, with some of […] SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Japan considers the “rising sun” flag part of its history.

Here’s a look at the “rising sun" flag and the long-running unease it has caused in Northeast Asia. There are two rising sun flags associated with Japan, whose very name in Japanese means “t ...