What's In A Flag?

With the Tokyo Olympics coming up in the summer of 2020, passions are high regarding a penchant for some Japanese people to continue waving the Korean Imperial ("Rising Sun") flag:

"Japanese athletes and fans regularly sport their national flag – a red ball centred on white. The rising sun symbol is different, however. A red ball with 16 red rays, it is sometimes used by companies in advertisements, yet it is technically a military flag: from 1870 until the end of the second world war, it was imperial Japan’s war flag. Since 1954, a renewed version of the rising sun has been the banner of the Japanese navy, known as the Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force.

South Korea, which was under Japanese rule from 1910 until 1945, has asked Japan to ban the flag from Olympic stands next year. Tokyo has so far refused, explaining that the flag is 'widely used in Japan' and is 'not considered a political statement'. But it is not Japan’s national flag, so the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has the authority to exclude it from the Tokyo Games. The leaders of the IOC, together with athletes and their supporters from around the world, should take note of the flag’s history, and how it is, in fact, used to make a particular political statement in Japan today.

For the Japanese right, flying the rising sun flag is part of a collective effort to cleanse the history of imperial Japan’s aggression during the second world war. It appears in the promotional literature and on the websites of groups such as the Zaitokukai, whose members march with signs reading, 'Koreans should be massacred!', and the Nippon Kaigi, which counts the Japanese prime minister, Shinzō Abe, among its members, and has described the second world war in Asia as a 'holy war of liberation'."

The article touches on the fact that South Korea should hardly be alone in being angry at Japan, considering the damage wrought against pretty much all of Asia (even Australia) during before and during World War II.

Second, if you tried waving a Nazi flag in Germany today you'd be arrested.  The same thing should go for waving the Rising Sun in Japan, or the Confederate flag in America.

Your hateful ideology lost.  Get over it.