Rising Sun

English

the flag of Japan

Proper noun

Rising Sun

1. Any of a number of places in the USA:
   1. Rising Sun, Indiana: A city, the county seat of Ohio County, Indiana, also located in Randolph Township.
   2. Rising Sun, Maryland
   3. Rising Sun, Wisconsin
   4. Rising Sun, Montana

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