Rising Sun
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Proper noun
[edit]- Any of a number of places in the USA:
- Rising Sun, Indiana: A city, the county seat of Ohio County, Indiana, also located in Randolph Township.
- Rising Sun, Maryland
- Rising Sun, Wisconsin
- Rising Sun, Montana
Proper noun
[edit]- (informal) The flag of Japan.
- (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[1], 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.
See also
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Rising Sun as a pub name on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Rising Sun Flag on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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