It is prohibited by intellectual property law or in any way illegal use of this article, with heavy civil and criminal penalties for the offender.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The history of tensions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The tension in relations between the two countries begins with the dispute over the Liancourt Rocks which are small islands in the Sea of Japan and are called \u00abDokdo\u00bb in Korean and \u00abTakeshima\u00bb in Japanese. These claims came to the surface after the end of the Cold War (1992).<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition, this tension is found ground in commercial matters due to the strict controls imposed by Japan on exports of critical materials for the South Korean industries. In addition, the Japanese Naval Self-Defense Force (JNSDF) announced that it will not send an invitation to the South Korean Navy to participate in the multinational Naval exercise-inspection to be hosted in Japan in October as a reaction on the subject that arose with the flag of the Rising sun last year for the same exercise-inspection that took place in South Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The tensions continue<\/strong> in the field of\nthe Tokyo Olympic Games in 2020<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n So, given the organization of the Olympic Games during the\nsummer of 2020 in Tokyo, the confrontation between South Korea and Japan about the\nuse of the flag of Rising sun on the stadiums of Japan has taken on a large\nscale. Japan replied, on these objections, that it did not intend to prohibit\nthe use of this flag because it does not consider the symbol of the Rising sun\na political declaration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As a rebuttal, South Korea last week denounced by letter both to the\nInternational Olympic Committee (ILO) and to the International Paralympic Committee\n(IPC) requesting both Committees to prohibit the use of the specific flag by\nthe fans of Japan during the Olympic and Paralympic Games respectively and\neverything else that depicts upon them this flag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In fact, in the effort of South Korea to succeed in its complaint, it\nmatched the flag of the Rising sun with the Nazi flag which has the symbol of\nNazi swastika, describing it as a symbol of extreme right-wing organizations.\nThis position has been embraced by FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football\nAssociation) and has banned for the specific reasons the flag of the Rising\nsun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the other hand, Japan does not accept the objections of South Korea and insists on the widespread use of this flag in Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Certainly, both the objections and the historical sensitivities of South\nKorea and China are of great importance to their peoples who have historically suffered\nfrom the implementation of the then Imperial Japan policy. But South Korea is\nnot right that this flag is identical to the flag bearing the symbol of the\nNazi swastika.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The flag with the symbol of the Nazi swastika has been banned and is not\nused by anyone, nor by the German state itself, which the specific flag is part\nof its history, except by outlawed right-wing and racist organizations and\nparties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, when the flag of the Rising sun is the official symbol of the\nJapanese Naval Self-Defense Forces since 1954, it is not possible to prohibit\nits use by anyone as it belongs to the official symbols of the current Japanese\nState. It was in 1954 where\nboth South Korea and China would have to put these issues before the flag of\nthe Rising sun could be adopted as part of the official symbols of the Japanese\nstate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, as the situation may be, both South Korea and China are always in\nfront of them the brilliant field of sports as much of the Olympic Games as the\nParalympic Games respectively of 2020 in Tokyo, where through the successes of\ntheir athletes in these Games, they can prove that no symbol scares them or\naffects them from wherever this symbol comes from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Olympic Games, as well as the Paralympic Games, are the symbol of the\ntogetherness of the countries and their peoples and they do not fit during\ntheir action any political tensions and confrontation respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The flag of the Rising sun was the official symbol of the Japanese Empire both before and during the Second World War (WWII). 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