Rising Sun

English

the flag of Japan

Proper noun

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^[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

• Land of the Rising Sun

Further reading

• Rising Sun as a pub name on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rising Sun Flag on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• sunrising