Japans flagga

[Gerle]

Franq, Flagspot sager foljande http://flagspot.net/flags/jp.html :
"It is said that at the time of the Mongol Invasions of Japan (1274 and 1281) the priest Nichiren presented a sun flag to the shogun. The Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1867) adopted the flag for its ships in the early 1600s. In the mid-19th century the shogunate decreed that all Japanese ships fly flags with the sun on a white field. In 1870 the Meiji government officially designated it for use on Japanese merchant and naval ships."

Aven om det askert fanns vissa skillnader mellan solflaggan fran slutet av 1200-talet och dagens flagga sa later det ju som om det finns belagg for det din broschyr sade!