Attention before the Tokyo Olympics

The National Sports and Tourism Committee of the Korean National Assembly is prohibited from bringing support to the stadium by bringing the Asahi flag or wearing a uniform with it during the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games in late August. As we did, we adopted a resolution for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Organizing Committee. Also, the Korean delegation is calling for a change as the Tokyo Paralympic medal symbol recalls the Asahi flag.

The Asahi flag is “a flag shaped like the Asahi. Originally, the Japanese flag and warship flag” (Kojien 7th edition). The Japanese flag, the so-called “Hinomaru”, is called the Nissho flag, while the Asahi sun flag is a figure in which a number of lines representing sunlight are drawn radially around the circle. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated in the document “Asahi-Nippon as a Japanese culture”, “The design of the Asahi-sun flag is similar to that of the Japanese emblem, and is used in various scenes in daily life, such as a large fishing flag that is shaped like the sun (abbreviation), childbirth, and celebration of seasonal events. Is explained. In Japan, the old Japanese army adopted the military flag from the Meiji period to the Second World War, and its role as a military flag ended after the war. Currently, the Self-Defense Forces are in the fleet.

Why is the Korean side rebelling against the Asahi flag? In July of this year, I asked Prof. Miki Kimura (Korea Peninsula Area Studies), Kobe University, who published a paper titled “A New Side of Korean Nationalism in the Asahi-Sun Flag Problem”.

-What kind of image is the Asahi flag for Korean people?

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