Getty Images Japanese soldiers during WWII and the country's modern ... Many South Koreans associate the rising sun flag with a long list of war crimes and oppression - and see Japan's continued ...

As the Allies began to turn the tide during the Second World War, the Axis powers desperately sought for any means to salvage ...

Those 1,200 Japanese were ordered to step on a photo of Emperor Hirohito or the rising sun flag. Many of them obeyed the order but more than 150 individuals who refused were sent to the prison on ...