Sentence examples for sun flag from inspiring English sources
Ki said that when he spotted a rising sun flag in the stands at al-Gharafa Stadium in Doha, Qatar, "my heart shed tears.
Ten of the activists jumped into the shark-infested waters anyway, swimming ashore on Sunday and planting the rising sun flag that evokes painful memories of Imperial Japan's 20th-century march across Asia.
Since the events of two years ago when China cut off supplies of rare earths, Ishigaki's mayor, Yoshitaka Nakayama, began flying the rising sun flag in front of City Hall for the first time since World War II.
Scores of frenzied Japanese fans clad in their team's blue jerseys, their faces painted in the white and red of the rising sun flag, began jumping off a downtown bridge into a canal below.
Conservatives in the coalition took it for granted that, with the New Komeito in their pocket, they could press on with getting one of their pet hobbyhorses into law: having the Hinomaru ("Rising Sun") flag and the Kimigayo ("His Majesty's Reign") anthem adopted legally as national symbols.
In the control room itself, someone had written the Japanese character for hope on a Rising Sun flag.
Zaitokukai members holding Rising Sun flags, associated with Japanese imperialism.
In Japan, where the conservative majority in the parliament voted last year to make the rising-sun flag an official symbol of the nation, an opposition leader called the outcome "the funeral of democracy".
Since 2003, the Tokyo Board of Education has required public school teachers to stand and face the rising-sun flag and sing the national anthem, which reveres the country's emperor.
"If you have any pride in your nation, do not show this film," Mr. Nishimura bellowed through his loudspeakers at a protest in front of the Yokohama New Theater, with about 50 protesters with billboards and rising-sun flags in tow.
The ancient history Shoku Nihongi says that Emperor Mommu used a flag representing the sun in his court in 701, and this is the first recorded use of a sun-motif flag in Japan.
