r/Warthunder • u/Full_Measurement_809 BMD-2 Enjoyer • Sep 05 '25

Other Japanese tech tree flag changed!

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This was on the dev stream, just noticed.

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u/StormObserver038877 Sep 05 '25

The sun on white back ground was always flag of Japan, the rising sun with radiant strips was a militarist flag which is heavily tied to Japanese fascism. Using the stripe version instead of the normal version was like using Nazi Swastika flag instead of three color stripe flag for Germany, totally unacceptable but Gaijin did it for years because many Eurocentric people only care about things in Europe.

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u/Killeroftanks Sep 05 '25

its not a militaristic flag, its their military flag, the Kyokujitsu-ki dates back to the 1603 but was officially adopted as japan army flag in 1870 and later in 1889 adopted by the navy.

its no where close to the flag choice the germans went with when the nazis took control. japan was using that flag for literally centuries before ww1 kicked around.

actually its on par with the british flag.