Thread 64442759

Why does Japan fly rising sun flags on its warships when visiting the US?

>>64442759 (OP)
Why not?

Looks cool, Chinese-anon. Why are you so concerned?

>>64442759 (OP)
Who cares?

>>64442769
It’s the flag of Imperial Japan, not Japan’s current national flag. It’s banned by FIFA and some other sports organizations because of association with Imperial Japan’s military and war crimes. Also might be insulting to the USA because it was the flag they used during the Pearl Harbor attack.

Looks nice

>>64442759 (OP)
Because that's the naval ensign. The sunburst version has never been the flag of Japan, it's the version they put on ships and military installation to make it more obvious that it's not a white flag.

>>64442759 (OP)
That's their Naval flag. Most navies have a unique flag.

>>64442759 (OP)
>>64442772
can't wait to watch the attrition war in the pacific. fucking hundreds of Chinese wiped out from one Japanese ohka attack lmfao. it's the 21st century, imagine how Japanese an hiro tech has advanced.

>>64442759 (OP)
Because the Japanese military has always used that version of the flag, not their normal national flag.

>>64442788
idk, I think they got their own rising sun in 45

>>64442788
>banned by FIFA
>couldn't even get an ADL condemnation
pathetic

>>64442797
The modern naval flag is essentially the same as the Imperial naval flag.

>>64442772
I’m American.

>>64442788
They don't ban our flag and we vaporized like 200k of them

>>64442788
And they got nuked twice in return and had Tokyo burned to the ground.

>>64442788
So? The current British flag was used during both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. They burned down the White House. But it's still just a flag.

>>64442788
How many more nookz do we have to drop until your feelings won't be hurt by a piece of cloth?

>>64442759 (OP)
>>64442788
>>64442814

>>64442788
They got btfo they can do whatever they want its fine
Now if we were clear losers like China and Korea were that just lucked out with allies then it would be offensive

>>64442788
have to make clear that it's not a white flag in stormy weather should a military engagement occur. the rising sun not only confers that, it predates WW1 as a military flag for the country.

Some posts are saying it’s ok because Japan lost, but most people don’t feel the same way about the swastika flag for some reason.

>>64442851
This does make sense though.

>>64442759 (OP)
It's their naval ensign.

Should Hiroshima and Nagasaki ban any american flag?

>>64442855
Don't worry about it Chinaman.

>>64442855
The Iron Cross was used by the Nazi's and it's still used by the Bundeswehr today.

>>64442855
>some reason
No historical association with Germany prior to going full retard. They adopted it as their insignia of going full retard, got shit on, and stopped using it. See >>64442876 and the Iron Cross as a counter-example.

>>64442759 (OP)
It is the official flag of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.
They made it official so there is nothing to be done about it.

>>64442864
I wouldn’t blame them if they did.

>>64442860
>>64442927
It doesn’t have to be. They could make another design.

>>64442788
it's not the Imperial flag but their naval jack you retard
the old Imperial flag is totally not their modern national flag with a different shade of red

>>64442933
It's their naval ensign.

>>64442933
>It doesn’t have to be.
You try to get something official changed through the Japanese parliament and then you'll know what official really means.

>>64442814
>I’m American.
Being American can still mean you are some SEA monkey diaspora or seething chang or gook with some generational trauma. Your average American barely even thinks about countries let along some random country's naval ensign. Even the gooks that are the largest eternal seethers about the rising sun used to not give two shits about it and would regularly conduct naval exercises with Japan flying it. Every bit of modern outrage about the flag started when some gook used seeing it as an excuse to get out of hot water after doing a monkey gesture at Japanese fans at a soccer game. Even though the flag was never spotted in the crowd it worked, so it became the defacto go-to scape goat for gooks.
>South Korea’s campaign against the Rising Sun Flag began in earnest in 2011. In an association football match against Japan, South Korean footballer Ki Sung-yueng was accused of making a racist gesture, sparking outrage in Japan. Ki responded that he had intended to highlight the racism he had experienced at Celtic F.C. and that his "heart shed tears" after he saw the Rising Sun Flag at the match.[35][36] On the other hand, many in Japan insist that the Rising Sun Flag was not in the stadium.[35][37] For this reason, there is a widespread view in Japan that Ki Sung-yueng used the excuse of having seen the Rising Sun Flag to justify his racist gesture.
Americans hardly give a shit about what some foreign navy (especially one of the largest regional allies) is doing that doesn't affect them and the thing that sparked all modern outrage happened at a sporting event that Americans don't give a shit about. That's why no one gives a shit. You are a chang or gook until skin and funs are posted.

>>64442759 (OP)
If MacArthur didn't see fit to cuck them out of the flag, who am I to care about it.

>>64442855
The swastika flag was specifically the flag of the party and associated ideology rather than simply German. It wasn't a flag they used before hand.

>>64442788
>>64442759 (OP)
Considering the people who actually experienced and lived through Pearl Harbor didn't have an issue with letting Japan keep it, there isn't actually any issue with it other than you being an oversensitive faggot.

>>64442952
I’m Caucasian American. I can’t post my nugget because I’m at work. I just thought it strange that they just sail into American ports flying their war crimes flag. Don’t forget the Bataan death march.

>>64442759 (OP)
It being their actual navy flag aside, what's a bit of banter between allies? When Germany sent a ship to harbour in Copenhagen as part of a larger exercise, they sent Schleswig-Holstein.

>>64443000
Yes, fellow American from Kansas

>>64442759 (OP)
Because nips are based.

>>64443000
>Don’t forget the Bataan death march.
Japan's PoW camps in the Philippines were headed by a Korean and most of the brutal actions were done by gooks taking out their autistic rage from being treated as guard dogs in the IJA.
>In his memoirs, Colonel Eugene C. Jacobs wrote during the Bataan Death March, "Korean guards were the most abusive. The Japs didn't trust them in battle, so used them as service troops; the Koreans were anxious to get blood on their bayonets."
>Korean guards were sent to the remote jungles of Burma, where Lt. Col. William A. (Bill) Henderson wrote some guards overlooking construction of Burma Railway "were moronic and at times almost bestial in treatment of prisoners." The highest-ranking Korean prosecuted was Lieutenant General Hong Sa-ik, who commanded all Japanese prisoner-of-war camps in the Philippines.

>>64442795
kek I like this US naval flag, looks like something I would draw.

>>64443053
It looks like someone drew one of those wooden snake toys lol

>>64443052
>Not only do we have national apologist, but also ija apologists

>>64443000
>Caucasian American

you joker you, everyone knows that White people don't exist.

>>64442832
>.

>>64442788
>>64442814
>>64443000
>It might be insulting to the USA
>Hello fellow burgers, I'm definitely American and not a VANK gook seething about Japan like I do every single day.

>>64443053
Go to hell

>>64442759 (OP)
When will Asians get it through their thick heads that white people don't care about the different breeds of Asians, they hate you all equally.

>>64443066
Lol I've been to that hospital or bank or whatever the fuck it was with the dome

>>64443079
wrong lmao

>>64442978
Mac felt the pixelated porn was punishment enough. A harsh, but fair sentence, as befitting the Gaijin Shogun.

>>64442788
>Also might be insulting to the USA because it was the flag they used during the Pearl Harbor attack.
I've flown onto a Japanese ship from Pearl Harbor (took off from Ford Island) and smoked a cigarette with JMSDF sailors inside the ship. Here's the (somewhat annoyed) U.S. Navy public affairs officer assigned to babysit our crew of reporters talking to her Japanese counterpart.

>>64442759 (OP)
Its just their naval flag, also its based.

>>64443374
What is she annoyed about?

>>64443421
LITERALLY ME

>>64442788
Its thier naval jack, you might as well ask the British to stop flying the red ensign because of colonialism

>>64442978
>MacArthur
You guys realize he was a massive weaboo, right?

>>64442759 (OP)
He wrote it in his will that it should be flown whenever a Japanese ship goes into a gaijin port. Simple as.

>>64443438
I’m sure there’s some who would say they should.

>>64443430
Having to follow around and watch a group of reporters in case one fell out of the helicopter

>>64443460
A miko shozoku with military medals on it looks cool. Thanks grok.

>>64442788
They sneak attacked us and brutalized a bunch of our pows. We burned their capitol to cinders and nuked them twice. We’ve been on good terms for like 80 years now. They can fly the flag they want on the ships they use to help us defend the pacific. Including when they’re guests in our harbors. At least as far as I’m concerned.

>>64443460
>an inspirasian to us all
Never noticed that before. Thanks for the chuckle.

>>64443374
Dude in the back right looks kino as hell. Like he fell asleep in his rack in 42 and just turned up to watch not realizing he time traveled.

>>64442788
So what, we fly the same flag we used when we nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki, if they got a problem with that it's too bad.
Only butthurt chinkoids ignorant of their own history hate the imp flag.

>>64442759 (OP)
Daily reminder

>>64442788
You may be shocked to learn that naval ensigns aren't necessarily the same as their national flags.

>>64444325
Japs do seem like a whiny bunch, is it an east asian thing?

>>64444341
Superiority complex fostered by being isolated from the rest of the world for their entire life.

>>64442759 (OP)
Because it has been the Japanese Naval Ensign for as long as Japan has had a navy. It was used when Japan and the US were allies before, and it's being used that way again.

>>64442759 (OP)
They still love that flag, they are still imperialist.
They would still be colonial and seize Indonesia, Korea, Philippines, etc. if they could.
It doesn't matter who the indigenous of any land are, they think anything could be added to Japan.
If being indigenous mattered to the Japanese their country wouldn't even exist, it'd decolonize from the Yayois and become the Ainu country.