While South Korean people are criticizing "Rising Sun Flag" like below:
However, assuming the rising sun flag is equivalent to Nazi flag is terrible fault.
Why?
The Nazi flag is a symbol of Nazism, which is, needless to say, a bad notion. Nazism is bad, thus The Nazi flag is bad too.
On the other hand, the rising sun flag is completely irrelevant to militarism or imperialism. The rising sun flag is just a national flag. More precisely, it's an alternative design of the national flag of Japan. It's just a variant.
It's true that the rising sun flag was used as a military flag. But, isn't it common that an army employs the national flag of its home country?
The rising sun flag is really really irrelevant to militarism. It's derived by the country name. Nihon, a Japanese name of "Japan", stands for "the place where the sun rises". Why? It's simply because Japan is located at the very east tip of Asia!! The sun rises from east, Japan is the place where the sun rises. Thus, the rising sun flag is symbol of "the place where the sun rises". It's totally irrelevant to militarism. By the way, the normal Japanese flag, Hinomaru, stands for "the rising sun" as well.
The design of the rising sun flag was popular amongst people in Japan far before WWII, even before it was declared as Japanese national flag in Meiji era.
Why the hell is such an old-line flag equivalent to symbol of Nazism?
If a person thinks so, (s)he would be match either of following conditions:
- (S)he is pretty ignorant.
- (S)he is brainwashed.
- (S)he is not brainwashed, but willing to push anti-Japan propaganda.
99 percent of such people are Koreans. What poor people they are!
Dear brilliant people, please do not believe South Korea's anti-Japan campaign. It's completely false.