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the flag of Japan

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Rising Sun

  1. Any of a number of places in the USA:
    1. Rising Sun, Indiana: A city, the county seat of Ohio County, Indiana, also located in Randolph Township.
    2. Rising Sun, Maryland
    3. Rising Sun, Wisconsin
    4. Rising Sun, Montana

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the Rising Sun

  1. (informal) The flag of Japan.
  2. (history, metonymically) Imperial Japanese rule.
    • 2006, John Glusman, chapter 26, in Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941–1945[1], London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, pages 464–5:
      Sixty years after the end of World War II, the thinning ranks of American ex-POWs have received neither compensation for their slave labor under the Rising Sun nor an apology from Japan.

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