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by Antonio Martins
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The flags of the Japanese prefectures use Mon symbols. I view them as
heraldry made modern. The Kanji written by them reflect not only ancient Chinese
pictograms, but also alliteration or sound. From a language viewpoint, the Mon
of the various prefectures make much more meaning than most of the western
world's corporate logos.
Bruce Ward, 5 March 1996
Karafuto is (was) the Japanese name for Sakhalin, or at least for the
southern part of it. I think the island was lost to Russia in 1911, but some of
it was briefly regained by Japan in WWII. The local name, which is neither
Russian nor Japanese, I do not know, but it's aboriginal people -- the Ainu --
name collectively both islands (Sakhalin and Hokkaido) Ainu Moshir, i.e., Ainu
Fatherland.
Antonio Martins, 25 November 1996
The following prefectures adopted its symbol mark: Tokyo, Aomori, Niigata,
Gifu, Wakayama, Shimane, Saga
and Kagoshima.
Similarly following prefectures adopted its logo in different name other than
official prefectural emblem:
Fukushima: Image Design
Gumma: Mascot
Saitama: Campaign Mark
Kochi: Image Character
Kagawa: Image Up Mark
Tottori: Image of the prefecture
Shiga, Fukui and Ishikawa: Communication Mark
Nagano: Logo Mark of the prefecture
See also:
http://members.just-size.net/pflag/list1.html (Please click blue Japanese
letters in the rightmost column then you can see images.)
Nozomi Kariyasu, 11 April 2014