Yet national teams in many other sports such as volleyball and softball have adopted red uniforms to represent the color of the rising sun on the Japanese national flag. Why has blue been chosen ...

Japan actually has two rising sun flags, one of them is the national emblem, “nisshoki” or “hinomaru” which means the origin of the sun (red circle on a white background) and which causes ...

This is the cult of Taiyozoku, the “Sun Tribers,” the flaming youth of modern Japan. Red Hair & Crew Cuts. In Ishihara’s first novel, Taiyo-no-Kisetsu (Season of the Sun), boys and girls ...

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 ...