The official flag of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces, the successor to the Japanese imperial military that fought alongside the Axis powers of World War II, remains the Rising Sun Flag used by ...

An angry crowd assaulted a man for wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the Rising Sun flag 0f the Imperial Japanese Navy during a mountain climbing event in East China’s Shandong Province on ...

A woman visits the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province, Aug 15, 2019.Photo:Xinhua A student in Nanjing Normal University ...

The super-dreadnought that once served as the flagship of the Imperial Japanese Navy has been found lying in sections in the dark ocean depths of the Philippines, 70 years after the end of World ...

Historically, it was used by the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy. The Japanese official national flag to be carried by Japan’s Olympic athletes is the Hinomaru flag with a red disc on a pure ...

The rising sun became the ensign of the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1889, and is flown to this day by the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force, the navy’s modern-day equivalent – a cause of ...

Midget submarines served as part of the Imperial Japanese Navy throughout the war, seeing action far beyond Pearl Harbor. In fact, the Type A (50 were built during the war) ...