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Japanese flags at Sochi Olympic athletes' village

SOCHI, Russia - Japan's Hinomaru flags hang outside apartment balconies at one of the three Olympic Villages where Japanese athletes will be staying in Sochi, Russia, on Jan. 31, 2014, a week before the Games begin.

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Japan-U.S. joint memorial service on Iwoto Island

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Hinomaru and the U.S. Stars and Stripes flags are hoisted next to a memorial during a joint memorial service for the war dead on Iwoto Island in the Pacific, scene of one of the fiercest battles between Japan and the United States during World War II, on March 19, 2014. Some 22,000 Japanese soldiers and 7,000 U.S. soldiers died during the month-long battle on the island, previously known as Iwojima. (Pool photo)

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London Games send-off ceremony

TOKYO, Japan - Women's wrestling champion Saori Yoshida (L), Japan Olympic delegation Hinomaru flag-bearer, attaches a good-luck charm to her jacket during a send-off ceremony for the national team to the London Olympics, at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo on July 21, 2012. To the right is javelin thrower Yukifumi Murakami (R), Japan Olympic team captain. They received good-luck charms made of debris from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and made by children in disaster-stricken areas.

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Amphibious bus for Tokyo sightseeing

TOKYO, Japan - The amphibious ''Sky Duck'' bus enters water during its trial run at Wakasu Kaihin Park in Tokyo's Koto Ward on Nov. 14, 2011. The sightseeing bus' operator, Hinomaru Limousine, Inc., plans to launch amphibious bus service tours in Tokyo next fall.

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Amphibious bus for Tokyo sightseeing

TOKYO, Japan - The amphibious ''Sky Duck'' bus sails during its trial run at Wakasu Kaihin Park in Tokyo's Koto Ward on Nov. 14, 2011. The sightseeing bus' operator, Hinomaru Limousine, Inc., plans to launch amphibious bus tour services in Tokyo next fall.

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S. Africa readies for World Cup

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - A boy wears face paint of the Japanese national flag Hinomaru at an event held ahead of the World Cup soccer finals on June 4, 2010 in Soweto, an old township in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Tokyo taxi operator adds electric vehicles to fleet

TOKYO, Japan - Two Mitsubishi Motors Corp. i-MiEV electric cars introduced by Hinomaru Limousine Co. as taxis are seen in Tokyo on March 25, 2010, as the company added two vehicles to its fleet for use primarily in the central business district in the capital on weekdays. The fare for the initial 2 kilometers of travel will be identical to that of gasoline-powered taxis at 710 yen.

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Antiwar activist who torched Hinomaru flag

NAHA, Japan - File photo shows Shoichi Chibana, an antiwar activist in the village of Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, taking part in a mass protest rally over history textbooks at a Ginowan park in the prefecture on Sept. 29, 2007. The 64-year-old former village assemblyman, who was convicted of torching the Hinomaru flag at a national athletic meet in 1987, has vowed in an interview with Kyodo News to keep fighting to achieve peace in Okinawa ahead of the 40th anniversary on May 15, 2012, of the island's reversion to Japanese sovereignty from U.S. control.

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2 ex-Yokohama assembly members want expulsion rescinded

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Hiroko Yonahara (L) and Sakura Inoue (2nd from L) hand petitions to a Kanagawa prefectural office staffer July 16 asking Gov. Hiroshi Okazaki to rescind their expulsion from the Yokohama municipal assembly. The former assembly members occupied the chairman's seat after they were repeatedly prevented from voicing their objections to displaying the Hinomaru national flag in the chamber, according to the petitions.

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Two Yokohama municipal assembly members expelled over nat'l flag

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Sakura Inoue (L) and Hiroko Yonahara defend their cases at a news conference after being expelled as a member of the Yokohama municipal assembly on June 25 for opposing the Hinomaru national flag being put up in the assembly chamber.

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Hinomaru flag raised at Naha city hall, 1st time since 1972

NAHA, Japan - The city of Naha raises the Hinomaru flag May 20 to commemorate the municipality's 80th anniversary, the first time it has flown the flag since Okinawa was returned to Japan in 1972 after 27 years of U.S. rule. Upon assuming the post last December, Naha Mayor Takeshi Onaga (R) said the city would fly the Hinomaru flag at city hall, a move rejected by his predecessors.

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Takahashi waves flag after winning Olympic women's marathon

SYDNEY, Australia - A smiling Naoko Takahashi waves a Hinomaru flag to spectators at Olympic Park on Sept. 24 after winning the women's marathon at the Sydney Olympics in 2 hours, 23 minutes and 14 seconds.

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Group demonstrates against Emperor's 10th anniversary

TOKYO, Japan - A citizen's group demonstrates in Tokyo on Nov. 12 against the day's ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of Emperor Akihito's accession to the throne. Group members also protested over the Hinomaru (rising sun) and ''Kimigayo'' (his majesty's reign), which were given official status in August through legislation as Japan's national flag and national anthem.

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Tamura wins women's 48-kg event in world judo c'ships

BIRMINGHAM, England - Japan's Ryoko Tamura raises the Hinomaru (rising sun) flag, saluting her supporters. She beat Cuba's Amarilis Savon on a decision to win the women's 48-kilogram event in the World Judo Championships on Oct. 10 in Birmingham, England. The victory is Tamura's fourth straight win in the world championships.

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Japan's Sato wins bronze in world marathon in Spain

SEVILLE, Spain - Japan's Nobuyuki Sato raises the Hinomaru (rising sun) flag after winning bronze in the world athletics championships' marathon in Seville, Spain, on Aug. 28. He clocked 2 hours, 14 minutes, 7 seconds. Defending champion Abel Anton of Spain won gold in 2:13.36 and Italy's Vincenzo Modica silver in 2:14.03.

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'Kimigayo' sung for 1st time at war memorial service

TOKYO, Japan - Some 6,500 people sing Japan's national anthem ''Kimigayo'' (his majesty's reign) for the first time at an annual war memorial service Aug. 15 at Tokyo's Nippon Budokan Hall. Last week a legislation recognizing the Hinomaru as Japan's national flag and ''Kimigayo'' as the national anthem came into effect.

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S. Korean civic group protests at Japan's flag-anthem law

SEOUL, South Korea - A South Korean civic group, supporting women used as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II, holds a rally in Seoul on Aug. 11 to protest a new Japanese law that gives legal status to the Hinomaru flag and ''Kimigayo'' anthem. The group said the new law will lead to a resurgence of militarism. The rally, joined by 50 people, also called on Japan to apologize to and compensate the former sex slaves.

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S. Korean war bereaved criticize Japan's new flag law

SEOUL, South Korea - A South Korean citizens' group representing the war bereaved rallies in Seoul on Aug. 10 to protest at Japan's passage of a bill Aug. 9 to make the Hinomaru its national flag. The group released a statement that the new law will lead to a resurgence of militarism and threaten peace in Northeast Asia.

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Man protests flag-anthem bill passage by burning flag

TOKYO, Japan - A man burns the Hinomaru flag on Aug. 9 in front of the Diet building to protest the Diet passage of a bill recognizing the Hinomaru as Japan's national flag and ''Kimigayo'' as the national anthem. The bill was supported by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partners, the Liberal Party and New Komeito party. The law will go into force Aug. 13.

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Nonaka meets press with Hinomaru flag on side

TOKYO, Japan - Top government spokesman Hiromu Nonaka meets the press with the Hinomaru flag at his side at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on Aug. 9, after the Diet passed into law earlier in the day a bill legally recognizing the Hinomaru as Japan's national flag and ''Kimigayo'' as the national anthem. The Hinomaru had never been placed there before.

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Flag-anthem bill enacted

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese parliament passes into law Aug. 9 a bill legally recognizing the Hinomaru as Japan's national flag and ''Kimigayo'' as the national anthem. Photo shows members of the House of Councillors voting on the bill, which was approved by 166-71 votes.

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'New' Hinomaru flags

TOKYO, Japan - Prominent Japanese graphic designer and satirist ''Mad'' Amano, 60, whose real name is Masayuki Amano, displays ''new versions'' of Japan's Hinomaru (rising sun) national flag, one with Chinese characters meaning ''full house'' (L) and another with the address of the Japanese government's home page (R), in Tokyo on Aug. 8. A controversial bill aimed at legally recognizing the Hinomaru and the ''Kimigayo'' (His Majesty's Reign) national anthem is being deliberated in the Diet, the nation's parliament. The bill is expected to be endorsed by the House of Councillors to become law on Aug. 9.

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Diet guards subdue person against flag-anthem bill

TOKYO, Japan - Parliament guards restrain a person in the public gallery July 22 who is shouting opposition to a bill to legally recognize the Hinomaru as Japan's national flag and ''Kimigayo'' as the national anthem while members of the House of Representatives voted and approved the bill.

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Lower house approves flag-anthem bill

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the House of Representatives vote on a bill July 22 to legally recognize the Hinomaru as Japan's national flag and ''Kimigayo'' as the national anthem. The bill, approved by the house, was immediately sent to the House of Councillors, and is expected to be enacted before the current Diet session ends Aug. 13.

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Public hearing on flag-anthem bill held in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - The House of Representatives Cabinet Committee holds a public hearing July 6 in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on a bill to legally recognize the Hinomaru (rising sun) and ''Kimigayo'' (his majesty's reign) as Japan's national flag and anthem. Okinawa was the center of intense fighting during World War II. The question of whether to recognize the flag and the song as national symbols is sensitive because of the close association of them with Japan's imperial system and past militarism.

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ZMP and others MaaS verification experiment

Tokyo Metropolitan Government Project "Project on Building a Business Model Utilizing Automated Driving Technology". The photo shows a foreign man riding in the autonomous mobility vehicle "Robocar Walk" (image taken by the model). = January 20, 2020, Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images; Participating companies: Tokyo Airport Transportation, Tokyo City Air Terminal, Nihon Kotsu, Hinomaru Kotsu, Mitsubishi Estate, JTB, ZMP

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ZMP and others MaaS verification experiment

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government's "Project for Building a Business Model Using Automated Driving Technology". The photo shows a foreign man getting off the autonomous mobility vehicle "Robocar Walk" (image taken by the model) on January 20, 2020 in Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. Air Terminal, Nihon Kotsu, Hinomaru Kotsu, Mitsubishi Estate, JTB, ZMP".

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ZMP and others MaaS verification experiment

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government's "Project for Building a Business Model Using Automated Driving Technology". The photo shows a foreign man getting off the autonomous mobility vehicle "Robocar Walk" (image taken by the model) on January 20, 2020 in Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. Air Terminal, Nihon Kotsu, Hinomaru Kotsu, Mitsubishi Estate, JTB, ZMP".

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ZMP and others MaaS verification experiment

Tokyo Metropolitan Government Project "Project on Building a Business Model Utilizing Automated Driving Technology". The photo shows a foreign man riding in the autonomous mobility vehicle "Robocar Walk" (image taken by the model). = January 20, 2020, Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images; Participating companies: Tokyo Airport Transportation, Tokyo City Air Terminal, Nihon Kotsu, Hinomaru Kotsu, Mitsubishi Estate, JTB, ZMP

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ZMP and others MaaS verification experiment

Tokyo Metropolitan Government Project "Project on Building a Business Model Utilizing Automated Driving Technology". The photo shows a foreign man riding in the autonomous mobility vehicle "Robocar Walk" (image taken by the model). = January 20, 2020, Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images; Participating companies: Tokyo Airport Transportation, Tokyo City Air Terminal, Nihon Kotsu, Hinomaru Kotsu, Mitsubishi Estate, JTB, ZMP

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2 ex-Yokohama assembly members want expulsion rescinded

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Hiroko Yonahara (L) and Sakura Inoue (2nd from L) hand petitions to a Kanagawa prefectural office staffer July 16 asking Gov. Hiroshi Okazaki to rescind their expulsion from the Yokohama municipal assembly. The former assembly members occupied the chairman's seat after they were repeatedly prevented from voicing their objections to displaying the Hinomaru national flag in the chamber, according to the petitions.

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Japanese soldiers raise the flag and sing a song of triumph.

History of the Pacific War 16: Japanese soldiers raise the warship flag and sing a song of triumph. A Japanese ship opens fire, a warship bursts into flames, a cannon blows fire seen from the side, several ships burst into flames, several ships land on the shore, invasion operation to the coast of China, a soldier wearing an iron helmet runs, a Japanese soldier raises a warship flag and sings a song of triumph, more than ten soldiers sing a song of triumph on the roof of a building, a map of China and Burma, the letters Rangoon shown on the map. A map of China and Burma, the letters Rangoon on the map, 　*Filming date unknown, Release date: January 1, 1951.

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Metropolitan government ordered to pay damages to ex-teachers

Former teachers at Tokyo metropolitan government-run high schools attend a press conference in Tokyo on May 25, 2015, after the Tokyo District Court ordered the local government to pay damages over its rejection of post-retirement re-employment following their refusal to stand up and sing the national anthem "Kimigayo" at school ceremonies. Some teachers argue that being ordered to stand and sing the anthem in front of the Hinomaru flag infringes on their freedom of thought and conscience. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Palau awaits arrival of Emperor Akihito, Empress Michiko

Japanese Hinomaru flags are hoisted along a street in Koror, Palau, on April 8, 2015. Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko are scheduled to visit the West Pacific nation to pay respects to those who lost their lives there during World War II, with this year marking the 70th anniversary of the end of the war. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Palau await for arrival of Emperor Akihito, Empress Michiko

Palau national flags and Japanese Hinomaru flags are hoisted along a street on Palau's Koror Island on April 8, 2015. Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko are scheduled to visit the West Pacific nation to pay respects to those who lost their lives there during World War II, with this year marking the 70th anniversary of the end of the war. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Palau await for arrival of Emperor Akihito, Empress Michiko

Japanese Hinomaru flags are lined up along a street in the center of Koror Island of Palau on April 8, 2015. Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko are scheduled to visit the West Pacific nation to pay respects to those who lost their lives there during World War II, with this year marking the 70th anniversary of the end of the war. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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WWII flags

Photo taken June 25, 2018 in Astoria, Oregon shows Obon Society founders Keiko Ziak (R) and her husband Rex examining a Yosegaki Hinomaru flag sent to the organization from an American family. The nonprofit venture, which returns these WWII-era souvenirs collected by Allied Forces from Japanese soldiers who died in battle to surviving relatives, receives around four to five flags per day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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WWII flags

Photo taken June 25, 2018, shows a visitor to the Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria, Oregon, viewing Obon Society's exhibit of more than a dozen Yosegaki Hinomaru flags. Such "good luck flags" signed by friends and family that Japanese soldiers had brought to World War II battlefields were often collected by Allied Forces as keepsakes. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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WWII flags

Obon Society co-founder Rex Ziak explains during a luncheon in Santa Barbara, California, (on May 14, 2018) how the organization's scholars analyze Yosegaki Hinomaru -- WWII-era "good luck flags" collected by Allied Forces from Japanese soldiers who died in battle - to determine the flag's origins. The nonprofit organization is searching for surviving families of original owners of around 900 such flags and has returned more than 200 flags since its founding in 2009. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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1972 Okinawa return - Sato Prime Minister retreat -

Prime Minister Eisaku Sato meets with U.S. President Richard Nixon and returns to Japan. Prime Minister Eisaku Sato waves from the ramp of an airplane, welcomed by government officials, remarks by Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, Hail Mary, helicopter ride, Long live Sato-san ad balloon, Bepairen rally, Prime Minister Sato speaks at a LDP rally, Kakuei Tanaka, date of shooting unknown, release date: 1969, Date of release: November 26, 1969. .

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S. Africa readies for World Cup

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - A boy wears face paint of the Japanese national flag Hinomaru at an event held ahead of the World Cup soccer finals on June 4, 2010 in Soweto, an old township in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo taxi operator adds electric vehicles to fleet

TOKYO, Japan - Two Mitsubishi Motors Corp. i-MiEV electric cars introduced by Hinomaru Limousine Co. as taxis are seen in Tokyo on March 25, 2010, as the company added two vehicles to its fleet for use primarily in the central business district in the capital on weekdays. The fare for the initial 2 kilometers of travel will be identical to that of gasoline-powered taxis at 710 yen. (Kyodo)

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Seller of small articles

The caption reads Small Articles , but what is sold here is unknown. The things hanging from the small Hinomaru flag look like windmills. What is placed under the stand is unclear.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number15‐10‐0]

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General meeting at Fukushima plant

TOKYO, Japan - Handout photo shows the Japanese national flag Hinomaru with encouraging messages sent from the United States displayed on the wall as officials hold a general meeting in a quakeproof building of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on May 30, 2011. They hold such a meeting twice a day with the Tokyo headquarters of Tokyo Electric Power Co. as part of operations to put the crippled plant under control, according to TEPCO. (Photo courtesy of Tokyo Electric Power Co.) (Kyodo)

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Amphibious bus for Tokyo sightseeing

TOKYO, Japan - The amphibious ''Sky Duck'' bus sails during its trial run at Wakasu Kaihin Park in Tokyo's Koto Ward on Nov. 14, 2011. The sightseeing bus' operator, Hinomaru Limousine, Inc., plans to launch amphibious bus tour services in Tokyo next fall. (Kyodo)

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Amphibious bus for Tokyo sightseeing

TOKYO, Japan - The amphibious ''Sky Duck'' bus enters water during its trial run at Wakasu Kaihin Park in Tokyo's Koto Ward on Nov. 14, 2011. The sightseeing bus' operator, Hinomaru Limousine, Inc., plans to launch amphibious bus service tours in Tokyo next fall. (Kyodo)

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'New' Hinomaru flags

TOKYO, Japan - Prominent Japanese graphic designer and satirist ''Mad'' Amano, 60, whose real name is Masayuki Amano, displays ''new versions'' of Japan's Hinomaru (rising sun) national flag, one with Chinese characters meaning ''full house'' (L) and another with the address of the Japanese government's home page (R), in Tokyo on Aug. 8. A controversial bill aimed at legally recognizing the Hinomaru and the ''Kimigayo'' (His Majesty's Reign) national anthem is being deliberated in the Diet, the nation's parliament. The bill is expected to be endorsed by the House of Councillors to become law on Aug. 9.

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'Kimigayo' sung for 1st time at war memorial service

TOKYO, Japan - Some 6,500 people sing Japan's national anthem ''Kimigayo'' (his majesty's reign) for the first time at an annual war memorial service Aug. 15 at Tokyo's Nippon Budokan Hall. Last week a legislation recognizing the Hinomaru as Japan's national flag and ''Kimigayo'' as the national anthem came into effect.

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Olympic scenes: Japan flag design on air pistol

Japan's Tomoyuki Matsuda uses an air pistol with a Hinomaru flag design during a qualification round for the men's 10-meter event at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics on Aug. 6, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Olympic scenes: Fan paints face with Japan flag

Photo shows a Brazilian fan of the Japanese women's table tennis team with his face painted with Japan's Hinomaru flag at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics on Aug. 13, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo