That is why flying the flag at the Tokyo Olympics has caused an uproar demanding it is banned from the Games. Japan actually has two rising sun flags, one of them is the national emblem, ...

Yuka Saso, who tied for ninth in Tokyo while representing the Philippines, is now carrying the Japanese flag at Le Golf National in Paris. The 23-year-old Saso was born in the Philippines to a ...

SOCHI, RUSSIA - FEBRUARY 07: Curler Ayumi Ogasawara of the Japan Olympic team carries her country's flag during the Opening Ceremony of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics at Fisht Olympic Stadium on ...

The Tokyo Olympics were supposed to showcase Japan’s growing ethnic diversity ... who carried the national flag in the opening ceremony and has a Beninese father, and tennis superstar Naomi ...