Nisshoki
(The rising sun flag.
Also known as Hinomaru)
RATIO
and POSITION
height : width = 2
: 3
the rising sun at
the center of the
flags
diameter : three-fifths
of the flags' height
COLORING
base : white
the rising sun : deep
red
Japan
: National Anthem
Kimigayo wa
Chiyo ni yachiyo ni
Sazare-ishi no
Iwao to narite
Koke no musu made
English
translation
May your reign
Continue for a thousand,
eight thousand generations,
Until the pebbles
Grow into boulders
Lush with moss
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Played
by Japan Ground Self-Defense
Force (Ministry of
Defense)
Poetic
English translation
by Basil Hall Chamberlain
Thousands of years
of happy reign be
thine;
Rule on, my lord,
until what are pebbles
now
By ages united to
mighty rocks shall
grow
Whose venerable sides
the moss doth line.
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Tokyo
Kenkoku
Kinen no Hi (Empire
Day)
11
February
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