C’è una bandiera giapponese imperiale alla finale di munster
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C’è una bandiera giapponese imperiale alla finale di munster
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Is that a good or a bad thing?
Better than the confederate flag I guess
It’s red and white, I doubt they know much more about it than that.
Ganbatte Cork!
I wouldn’t want to be Nanking GAA Club right now.
Those flags have been making appearances at cork matches since at least the 70s, that’s as far as my memory goes, so someone older might say even longer than that.
I thought someone had found Wally
For as long as I’ve been going to and following hurling matches this would be a pretty regular thing to see at Cork matches.
Still the ensign of the Japanese Navy on their ships. But banned by FIFA at competitive matches.
Not exactly the best flag to be waving around, but Irish people wouldn’t be particularly literate on what happened in the Asian theater in WW2 (or indeed what came before it).
I’ve seen the confederate flag being flown, and most people know what that represents.
Well that means you’re gonna fight E. Honda in the butcher/fish shop.
Very dishonourabre
Lot of people unfamiliar with Cork GAA and the flags its supporters have being flying for the last 40 or 50 years 🙄
Perhaps hes blowing some divine wind?
Great bunch of lads!
There were 2
I’ve seen that symbol worked into stuff about Cork plenty of times over the years. I don’t think there’s any awareness of what it signifies or the association with imperial Japan. It’s just a red and white sunburst.
I’ve seen it used in other places too in graphic design on skateboards and all sorts of random stuff.
Also, I think the use of the confederate flag by Cork supporters in the past was pretty crass, but I don’t think they really had any notion of what it meant. It was just a red and white flag from the Dukes of Hazard. It would be a bit of a stretch to say it’s an intentional political statement, and I think it would a HUGE stretch to think the use of the Japanese rising sun flag was anything even remotely political tbh.
Considering it’s still used as the Japanese naval ensign, I wouldn’t be twisting pearls over this…
Someone’s rocking it for the Empire.
I was more amazed at the auld lad jumping behind the screen on the pitch , he must of been around 80
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They know what they’re doing as do the fans with Confederate flags, there was a guy at the game last week wearing a confederate shirt.
yea thats a common feature for Decades anything red and white
Would this not be the same as holding Swastika flag?
After all, this flag is associated with the worst possible, most inhumane war crimes that ever took place (yes, worse than Nazis)… I wish I never read that.
What are we gonna do when nothing we see hasn’t been filtered through the lens of untruths, misinformation or artificial intelligence?
That’s also the flag of the Japanese naval self defense forces.
Haven’t seen that one in a while. Anyone brave enough to bring a rebel flag to the semi??
That’s been flying at cork marches since the 80s
Just a giant Tunnocks teacake wrapper.
I’ll put it this way: if an excitable expat or tourist Cork GAA fan in Seoul or Beijing went waving this flag on the street after winning the Munster final, they wouldn’t be long finding out what it means to some people in Asia.
Cork have a history of flying problematic flags! All done in ignorance, with the best of intentions!
Technically speaking, it’s the flag used by the Japanese Ground Self-Defence Forces, the Japanese Air Self-Defence Forces, and the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Forces