SEOUL — Japan considers the “rising sun” flag part of its history. But some in the Koreas, China and other Asian countries say the flag is a reminder of Japan’s wartime atrocities ...

SEOUL, South Korea -- Japan considers the "rising sun" flag part of its history. But some in the Koreas, China and other Asian countries say the flag is a reminder of Japan's wartime atrocities ...

As the debate about the use of the Confederate flag raged in the ... others in the past." For Japan, this aspiration and the corresponding response from countries such as China and Korea may ...

There are two rising sun flags associated with Japan, whose very name in Japanese means “the sun's origin.” One is the country's national flag, called “nisshoki,” or “hinomaru,” which ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Japan considers the “rising sun” flag part of its history. But some in the Koreas, China and other Asian countries say the flag is a reminder of Japan’s wartime atrocities, ...