Rising Sun

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the flag of Japan

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Rising Sun

  1. A number of places in the United States:
    1. An unincorporated community in Pope County, Illinois.
    2. An unincorporated community in White County, Illinois.
    3. A city, the county seat of Ohio County, Indiana, also located in Randolph Township.
    4. A town in Cecil County, Maryland.
    5. An unincorporated community in Leflore County, Mississippi.
    6. An unincorporated community in the town of Utica, Crawford County, Wisconsin.
  2. A hamlet in Calstock parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX3970).

Proper noun

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, 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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