{"id":799406,"date":"2019-09-12T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/south-korea-asks-ioc-to-ban-rising-sun-flag-at-tokyo-olympics\/"},"modified":"2019-09-12T13:36:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T19:36:00","slug":"south-korea-asks-ioc-to-ban-rising-sun-flag-at-tokyo-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/south-korea-asks-ioc-to-ban-rising-sun-flag-at-tokyo-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea asks IOC to ban \u2018rising sun\u2019 flag at Tokyo Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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South Korean protesters hold Japanese rising sun flags during a rally to mark the South Korean Liberation Day from Japanese colonial rule, in downtown Seoul, South Korea last month. South Korea has formally asked the International Olympic Committee to ban the Japanese “rising sun” flag at next year’s Tokyo Games, calling it a symbol of Japan’s brutal wartime past.<\/strong>
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SEOUL, South Korea \u2014 South Korea has formally asked the International Olympic Committee to ban the Japanese \u201crising sun\u201d flag at next year\u2019s Tokyo Games, calling it a symbol of Japan\u2019s brutal wartime past and comparing it with the Nazi swastika.<\/p>\n

South Korea\u2019s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on Wednesday said it sent a letter to IOC President Thomas Bach expressing \u201cdeep disappointment and concern\u201d over Japanese plans to allow the flag in stadiums and other facilities during the 2020 Olympics.<\/p>\n

South Korean Olympic officials last month urged the local organizing committee to ban the flag, but Tokyo organizers responded by saying it was widely used in Japan, was not considered a political statement and \u201cit is not viewed as a prohibited item.\u201d<\/p>\n

The flag, portraying a red sun with 16 rays extending outward, is resented by many South Koreans, who still harbor animosity over Japan\u2019s 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n

The ministry said in its letter to Bach, it described the flag as an unmistakable political symbol that\u2019s embraced by Japanese rightwing protesters who vent anger toward Koreans and other foreigners. It said the flag recalls \u201chistoric scars and pain\u201d for the people of South Korea, China and other Asian countries that experienced Japan\u2019s wartime military aggression, similar to how the \u201c(swastika) reminds Europeans of the nightmare of World War II.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ministry said it also pointed out that FIFA, the governing body of world soccer, has banned the flag in international matches.<\/p>\n

\u201cFurthermore, we emphasized that the use of the rising sun flag during the Tokyo Olympics would be a direct violation of the Olympic spirit promoting world peace and love for humanity, and that the IOC should have the Tokyo organizing committee withdraw its (current) stance on the flag and prepare strict measures to prevent it from being brought to stadiums,\u201d the ministry said.<\/p>\n

Tokyo\u2019s Olympic organizing committee didn\u2019t immediately react to South Korea\u2019s request to the IOC to ban the flag at the games.<\/p>\n

The IOC confirmed it received the Korean request, and said \u201csports stadiums should be free of any political demonstration.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen concerns arise at Games time we look at them on a case by case basis,\u201d the Olympic body said in a statement.<\/p>\n

via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South Korean protesters hold Japanese rising sun flags during a rally to mark the South Korean Liberation Day from Japanese colonial rule, in downtown Seoul, South Korea last month. South Korea has formally asked the International Olympic Committee to ban the Japanese “rising sun” flag at next year’s Tokyo Games, calling it a symbol of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-799406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 05:13:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}