And the major navies conduct joint exercises with the JMSDF ships flying that flag. These are nations that actually fought Japan or were invaded by them in WWII. Today the South Korean government amd ...

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 ...

A salute South Korean sailors rendered to the “rising sun” flag of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force at a fleet review touched off an exchange Monday in Seoul between the nation’s ...

A Japanese news outlet on Wednesday backed fans using rising sun flags to cheer and support the Japanese team during the World Baseball Classic, fueling tension between Japan and Korea over the ...

Likewise both Korea and China have been demanding a “sincere apology” from Japan for the atrocities during the war, but Tokyo has always fallen short of going that far. Anyhow the flags ...

Seoul has argued that the flag reminds South Koreans of Japanese rule and military aggression on the Korean Peninsula between 1910 and 1945. In turn, Tokyo has said that the flag is the official ...

But Japan skipped an international fleet review in South Korea in 2018 in protest of the Moon Jae-in government’s request to avoid hoisting the flag Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force on a ...

and there have been flare-ups over the "Rising Sun" flag seen as a symbol of imperial Japan. Tokyo has accused South Korean leaders of exacerbating tensions to score political points.

And I would say that trying to make sure that the Japanese understand their own history ... that should continue. But the question is: Should the South Korean government be waving that flag ...