- Japan's flag is one of the most iconic and easily recognisable. Known in Japanese as the Hinomaru, it symbolises the sun and by extension the emperor.
- Interesting Facts about the Flag of Japan. There is a large Japanese national flag at Izumo Shrine, Shimane Prefecture that weighs 49 kgs.
- In 1870, the Meiji government designated the Hinomaru as the national flag, showcasing it as an emblem of a newly unified and modernizing Japan.
- The flag of Japan is called 日の丸 (の旗) hi no maru (no hata), which means '(flag of) circle of the sun.'
- The first attempt to raise a unified flag of Japan was in the year 1854 when the flag of the rising sun was raised on all Japanese ships.
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- The Hinomaru was officially adopted in 1870 as a merchant flag, becoming the first national flag adopted in Japan between 1870-1885.
- Even though Japan was modernized during the Meiji Restoration (明治維新, Meiji ishin), the idea of a national flag still seemed rather foreign to the Japanese.
- The first concrete evidence that testifies to use of a sun flag for Japan dates from 1184, but there are oral traditions going back centuries earlier.