Original Japan WWII Imperial Japanese Army Small Rising Sun War Flag Attached to Card Paper - 9" x 11 1/2" Fusee Spring & Cover 400 kg) Tallboy and then

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In the cold

Poor weather at the departure bases extended the time required to assemble the strike force

They became a popular souvenir of the war

Original Japan WWII Imperial Japanese Army Small Rising Sun War Flag Attached to Card Paper - 9" x 11 1/2" Fusee Spring & Cover 400 kg) Tallboy and thenOriginal Item: Only One Available. The Rising Sun Flag ( Kyokujitsu ki) design was originally used by feudal warlords in Japan during the Edo period. On May 15, 1870, as a policy of the Meiji government, it was adopted as the war flag of the Imperial Japanese Army, and on October 7, 1889, it was adopted as the naval ensign of the Imperial Japanese Navy (Naval flags have the sun off center to the left). With the sun in the center, this is a flag of the