Rising Sun

The Rising Sun Flag is not the equivalent of the Nazi swastika. "Rising Sun Flag = Nazi symbol" was fabricated by Koreans to hate on Japan and they started spreading the lie in 2012. The RSF is still used as the naval ensign of Japan to this day. It's the official flag of Japan.

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@200divesL8r @business >>>controversy over........into the 2002 World Cup Stop making shit up. It wasn't even about protesting against the use of the Rising Sun Flag. They protested against Japanese history books, dumbass Get some serious help. You'll be muted. x.com/RisingSunFlagg…

@RisingSunFlagg @business Associated Press, 2001: controversy over the Rising Sun flag going into the 2002 World Cup. Koreans had been protesting it passionately by the 1990s after democratization. This was never confined to some imagined 2011–12 protest. Your information is simply, verifiably incorrect.

After World War II, Japan renounced war and dismantled its military. It’s now debating whether those limits still fit a more dangerous world. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

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Nice to see you finally used more than one line to address the issue. But the “nobody complained until 2012” claim doesn’t survive even basic memory. The Rising Sun flag was already controversial during the 2002 World Cup. Korean media and civic groups were arguing about it throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, and the issue was already circulating internationally by the mid-2000s. I remember this personally in 2005 when I was in college in the U.S. Korean American students were already debating the Rising Sun flag and its wartime symbolism online and on campus. So no, this wasn’t invented in 2012. It had already been argued about for years. Did you actually check any of that, or do you still think the memes are helping?

@200divesL8r @business How many times do I have to tell you that no one said anything about the use of the Rising Sun Flag until Koreans started saying shit about it in 2012? It's 100% anti-Japanese propaganda and a bunch of idiots like you fell for it. It's not my problem that you can't figure it out.

How many replies have you fired off in this thread now? We live in a time where people can debate fluently across languages with translation tools. Serious discussion across the world has never been easier. And this is what you do with that? Memes. Fragments. Scattershot replies. People can see exactly what that means. You haven’t thought your position through, and you’re arguing from weakness. The most you seem capable of defending is whatever fits on a bumper sticker.

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You’re mostly arguing with me here. People rarely read this far down a thread. Do you really think you’re convincing me? And honestly I’m the one taking the moderate position. I’m not calling for banning anything. I’m saying people should at least understand why others remember these symbols differently. Koreans aren’t interchangeable and neither are Japanese. No country has one uniform memory of history. Yes, there are wartime photos showing the Hinomaru and the Kyokujitsu-ki flying together. That’s not disputed. But if your logic is that both symbols should be treated the same today, that actually pushes you closer to the position taken by Nikkyōso, which has argued for decades against forcing schools to display the Hinomaru or sing Kimigayo. Personally I think that goes too far. I didn’t even bring that up. And calling the atrocities “fabricated propaganda” doesn’t really work either when so much of the documentation comes from Japan’s own archives. JACAR. The NIDS military archives. The Diplomatic Archives of the Foreign Ministry. The National Diet Library. So are Japan’s own archives propaganda now?

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You might not see anything in that flag. Different people see different things in symbols. But I’ve had plenty of conversations with Koreans who are still deeply offended by it, and it’s not hard to understand why. Their grandparents remember mass atrocities. Nanjing. Comfort women. Forced labor. Unit 731. That flag was flying over a lot of it. Now to be clear, I’m not calling it a Nazi flag. The history and symbolism are different. It predates the war, much like Germany’s Iron Cross, which is still used by the German military today. But that doesn’t mean the symbol carries no baggage. Is it the fault of people alive today? No. It’s about what ancestors did. But we still live in a world where those memories haven’t fully settled with neighbors. Sometimes a little humility goes a long way. And to be honest, many Americans probably won’t give Japan much grief over it. Americans often assume countries made their decisions and don’t like revisiting them. But Americans aren’t all the same. Some of us listen to people in the region and think dialogue, humility, and reconciliation with neighbors still matter.

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@dominictsz Fun fact. Chinese did have an army there when the Japanese were coming. But they chose to let the civilians behind and ran for the hills👀

🇨🇳This is Nanjing, a city where Japanese invaders once killed over 300,000 people and left everything in ruins! Today, Nanjing has rebuilt itself and is now more advanced than most cities in Japan!