{"id":11022,"date":"2019-11-12T18:59:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T09:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/12\/japans-rising-sun-flag-is-not-a-symbol-of-militarism"},"modified":"2019-11-12T18:59:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T09:59:34","slug":"japans-rising-sun-flag-is-not-a-symbol-of-militarism-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11022","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s rising sun flag is not a symbol of militarism | Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ohtaka Masato <\/strong>of Japan\u2019s foreign affairs ministry says his country\u2019s flag should not be banned at the 2020 Olympics<\/p>\n<p>Alexis Dudden\u2019s opinion piece presents an argument on the rising sun flag based on the misunderstanding of Japan\u2019s sincere dealings with the past (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/nov\/01\/japan-rising-sun-flag-history-olympic-ban-south-korea\" title=\"\">Japan\u2019s rising sun flag has a history of horror. It must be banned at the Tokyo Olympics<\/a>, 1 November).<\/p>\n<p>Looking at Prime Minister Abe\u2019s statement on the 70th anniversary of the end of the second world war \u2013 issued by cabinet consensus \u2013 it is clear that Japan has squarely faced the facts of history and repeatedly expressed feelings of deep remorse and heartfelt apology for its actions during the war, which this opinion piece fails to recognise.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/12\/japans-rising-sun-flag-is-not-a-symbol-of-militarism\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohtaka Masato of Japan\u2019s foreign affairs ministry says his country\u2019s flag should not be banned at the 2020 OlympicsAlexis Dudden\u2019s opinion piece presents an argument on the rising sun flag based on the misunderstanding of Japan\u2019s sincere dealings with &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"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":[41,88,220,222,203,912],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-second-world-war","category-south-korea","category-sport","category-sport-politics"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11022","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\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11023,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11022\/revisions\/11023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}