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SOUTH KOREA has formally asked the International Olympic Committee to ban the Japanese “rising sun” flag at next year’s Tokyo Games, calling it a symbol of Japan’s brutal wartime past and comparing it with the nazi swastika.
South Korea’s ministry of culture, sports and tourism yesterday said it sent a letter to IOC President Thomas Bach expressing “deep disappointment and concern” over Japanese plans to allow the flag in stadiums and other facilities during the 2020 Olympics.
South Korean Olympic officials last month urged the local organising committee to ban the flag, but Tokyo organisers responded by saying it was widely used in Japan, was not considered a political statement and “it is not viewed as a prohibited item.”
JEREMY CORBYN reports from Hiroshima where he represented CND at the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the city by the US
