Just because the sun symbol dates back over a thousand years in use by the ancient Japanese, this doesn’t excuse that this particular red rising sun flag had been used by the Imperial Japanese fascists when they were slaughtering their way throughout Asia.
Just because the Swastika is an ancient symbol also wouldn’t make it ok if one of the branches of the German military were to use that fucking symbol in the modern day.
Can’t wait for the Stars and Stripes to be up there with the Rising Sun and Swastika
That ship looks kinda pathetic ngl. This bad boi, on the other hand, can fit 112 potentially hypersonic missiles (which no western country has) as well as several helicopters
The Chinese type-055 stealth destroyer is a marvel of engineering, and the proposed US DDG(x) destroyer prototype is basically just stolen from this.
Wait, isn’t Japan constitutionally banned from having military fleets ever again?
Probably the US loosening the chains as they need more fodder to throw at their enemies. They already named their aircraft carriers as “helicopter destroyers” lol.
Well, that is what they are. Japan currently only operates helicopter carriers, which are unable to launch fixed wing, drone, and VTOL aircraft, and Japan has only started construction of their first post-war aircraft carrier in 2022.
Japan is allowed to have a military, but it is extremely limited in almost every aspect. Constitutionally, they cannot undertake an arms race and stockpile any form of “war potential”, they cannot use their military for ANY sort of offensive capacity, and until very recently Japanese officers could not legally order their units to open fire or cease fire, those commands had to be given by an American, UN, or NATO attaché. There are many more clauses and regulations that essentially make the JSDF forces a token national guard. Unless Japanese nationalists succeed in their remilitarization campaigns.
Oh it isnt military, it is a self defense coastguard with greatly militarised ships
How do you tell the difference? Weapons are weapons, you can use them for self defense or war, the physical equipment don’t know the difference.
We taking the perpetrator of one of the worst massacres in the world on the pinkie promise they won’t do it again?
Sarcasm. They are now defending that a preemptive strike on china if they went to war with 3rd countries friendly to japan could be considered defensive.
Wtf is with that logic? If preemptive strikes are “self defense” why not just preemptively exterminate the human race? Would certainly quell all future wars.
its japan trying to go around laws that forbid that
As part of the JDF they are allowed to have some.
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… as far as I know, East Germany never used the iron cross - only West Germany, in many ways the successor of Nazi Germany did.
In my opinion, I don’t care where the symbol came from. Especially as someone whose grandparents lived under Japanese occupation, seeing this flag never sits well with me, and I think this flag should be treated the same as the swastika.
While true, it is under that banner which mostrous atrocities were perpetuated, thus linking it to those even though the depicted motive origninally was not related to fascism and its mistdeeds.
tl;dr: Fascism ruined it for everyone.
To be absolutely fair, most atrocities were commited by the IJA, the army, which used the flag with the centered sun, instead of a sun offset to the side, which is the naval flag.
IJN did commit atrocities, but not as much since they didnt have access to as many POW
This is simply the naval flag, it holds no meaning beyond that.
They are the same except slightly different shades of red.
