Rising Sun Flag Offensive Reddit, Why People Are Still Using Japanese Rising Sun Flag History

Even in reddit koreans will comment that the flag is offensive if some image in rpics or other subreddits contains it or similar pattern.

Jungkook cute pictures hd. This is a dengist subreddit in favor of bashar al assad with no information that can lead to the arrest of. Why we focus on hakenkreuz and rising sun flag. I do associate the rising sun flag with imperial japan from ww2 but its not as offensive to me as the hakenkreuz flag would be.

Please forgive my rudeness. Other asians simply dont care. Meaning it was actually the flag of japan during ww1 when japan was an ally of the ukus etc and was used for nearly 70 years before ww2 as well as from a decade afterwards.

Last fall south korea asked the international olympic committee to ban the rising sun flag from olympic stands in the tokyo 2020 olympics. Rising sun flag was adopted way before pro fascists came to power in japan and was a symbol of japanese military during and after meiji period including taisho democracy and world war i where japan fought on antantas side. Because our ancestor generations are dying in the hands of japanese there is no good manners.

To be fair its highly offensive just for the koreans. Kind of strange since a lot of my family members died in indonesia during ww2. Dr the hakenkreuz is offensive you are offended by the rising sun flag.

155k members in the genzedong community. Reddit i love you. If you dont believe me every news about offensive rising sun flag involved koreans.

The rising sun flag was used for hundreds of years before ww2 and was the official military flag for japan from 1870. South korea compares japans rising sun flag to swastika as olympic row deepens read more south korea which was under japanese rule from 1910 until 1945 has asked japan to ban the flag from. The rising sun flag is akin to a symbol of the devil to asians and koreans just like how the swastika is a symbol of nazis which reminds europeans of invasion and horror after all people do not tend to consider all the flags used by enemy countries as akin to nazi swastikas or to expect countries to change flags each time they lose a war.

Its because who cause the war are the nazis and the japanese military. And to some extent the chinese. I guess its so far away that im not as emotionally attached to events that happened in asia unfortunately.