I've been reading about a little controversy recently where a popular children's cartoon called Miraculous Ladybug had a brief image of what looked like the Rising Sun Flag as a visual for Japan explaining different time zones, and a lot of Koreans have voiced their displeasure at the show and its creator as a result.
It inspired me to look more into the history of the Rising Sun Flag, and I was surprised to learn that the Korean protests against the flag only started around ten years ago. Some people have actually compared it to the Nazi swastika while protesting. Is this comparison because Japan and Germany worked together during World War II?
Were there any Koreans protesting the flag and Japanese rule during and after World War II? I know Japan treated the Koreans poorly when the former were under the latter's rule, but were there ever any protests against the flag before 2011? If not, why did the protests start so recently?
I hope this question isn't too complicated. It's my first time posting on this subreddit.
As I cannot give you detailed enough information but there are a few posts that go into the rising sun flag from past posts on /r/AskHistorians that might answer your question or you might just find them interesting. From user u/kieslowskifan https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/7ipfdi/why_is_the_rising_sun_flag_of_imperial_japan_not/ . Another would be from the same user https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/4z6lbb/the_germans_changed_their_military_flags_after/ . Another from the same user is https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/8ud5t2/after_ww2_was_there_a_debate_over_whether_or_not/.