During the 19th century, the rising sun symbol became the flag of the Japanese military and was flown by the Japanese navy during World War Two. As a result, for many of the citizens of countries ...

Among the lot, however, was one symbol that completed 66 years last month in being the identity of a recognised party — the ‘rising sun’ of the DMK. Referred to as Udhayasuriyan in Tamil ...

It has asked for trishul (trident) as its first choice of symbol, and rising sun as the second option. Uddhav Thackeray has given three symbols, ‘trishul’, ‘mashaal’ and ‘rising sun ...

The origin of the Rising Sun symbol dates to 1870. For the Japanese, the flag is not an “expression of political or discriminatory assertions,” according to the Foreign Affairs ministry website.