{"id":10550,"date":"2019-10-29T13:52:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T04:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/29\/south-korea-compares-japans-rising-sun-flag-to-swastika-as-olympic-row-deepens"},"modified":"2019-10-29T13:52:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T04:52:22","slug":"south-korea-compares-japans-rising-sun-flag-to-swastika-as-olympic-row-deepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10550","title":{"rendered":"South Korea compares Japan&#8217;s &#8216;rising sun&#8217; flag to swastika as Olympic row deepens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MPs voice outcry as Tokyo 2020 organisers say they have no plans to restrict use of flag that Seoul says has militaristic roots<\/p>\n<p>South Korea is intensifying its campaign to ban the Japanese \u201crising sun\u201d flag from being displayed at next year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/olympic-games-2020\">Tokyo Olympics<\/a>, in the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/29\/we-have-to-get-along-japan-korean-residents-at-sharp-end-of-diplomatic-row\">diplomatic row<\/a> linked to the countries\u2019 bitter wartime history.<\/p>\n<p>In September, South Korea\u2019s sports ministry asked the International Olympic Committee [IOC] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/29\/we-have-to-get-along-japan-korean-residents-at-sharp-end-of-diplomatic-row\">to ban the flag <\/a>\u2013 regarded by many Koreans as a symbol of Japanese militarism and colonial rule.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/29\/south-korea-compares-japans-rising-sun-flag-to-swastika-as-olympic-row-deepens\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MPs voice outcry as Tokyo 2020 organisers say they have no plans to restrict use of flag that Seoul says has militaristic rootsSouth Korea is intensifying its campaign to ban the Japanese \u201crising sun\u201d flag from being displayed at next year\u2019s Tokyo Olym&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,222,203,882],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-south-korea","category-sport","category-tokyo-olympic-games-2020"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10551,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10550\/revisions\/10551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}