So I just had this discussion elsewhere about the meaning of the Confederate Flag and the meaning of the Rebel Flag, which is today indistinguishable from the Confederate Flag.

See: Modern display of the Confederate battle flag where the Square Version was used by the Confederacy and the Rectangular version is a more modern, post war interpretation.

Most people recognise that there is a significant racial discussion to be had surrounding these flags, as a Non-American I am not qualified to comment on anything other than the Historical scholarly context.

Now it's pretty accepted that the Confederate Flag in its many forms, in 2020, is not considered something appropriate to display in public.

Now the American Civil war ran from 1861-1865 and a lot of people still consider the societal wounds from that war to be fairly fresh.

Likewise, the Swastika was a symbol of peace and Goodluck , the earliest known Swastika can be traced to circa 10,000 BCE

However after being used by the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or National Socialist German Workers' Party, better known as the Nazi party from 1920-1945 the Swastika is basically unseen outside of Private Religious Ceremonies and Asia these days.

I will not be linking this flag, as I'm sure most people know what it looks like, and really, in a Western Setting, there's basically no "version" that I have encountered which is considered acceptable.

I don't think I have to go into why these symbols are questionable in Western Society these days, but I do question one symbol still in fairly common use.

The Naval Ensign of the Empire of Japan has been adopted by the JDM car scene as the JDM Flag

I know that the Japanese Rising Sun Flag has a much longer history than the Flag of the Confederacy, but it still has a history akin to the Swastika if you were to draw a parallel historically.

As an Australian and knowing of the Changi Prison Camps, and the Sandakan Death Marches it strikes me as strange to see Australians today driving around Japanese cars emblazoned with what is really a symbol that would be associated, especially by older generations, with the mistreatment of prisoners during the Second World War.

You also have the Nanjing Massacre, and you could basically also just rope in the Entire War in the Pacific as that was a heavily Naval focused theatre where the Naval Ensign of the Empire of Japan was very heavily used.

I know this will be a very hotly discussed topic, and I understand that there is a lot of division here, hence why I am afraid to open this can of worms. So I thought this was an appropriate sub for this type of discussion.