Japan has a flag problem, too

As the debate about the use of the Confederate flag raged in the United States this week, many looked abroad for other symbol-based controversies. Germany, which had banned the swastika and other Nazi iconography after World War II, became an especially common reference: If the German's had banned Nazi symbols, the logic went, why couldn't […]









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