China Town (Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan)

知名町

Last modified: 2023-06-03 by zachary harden
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image by Tomislav Šipek, 23 October 2014

• The Flag

• Kagoshima Prefecture
• Japanese Subdivisions
• Japan

The Flag

The flag of China town is white with symbol.
Sources: http://www2.odn.ne.jp/mihediro/sotugiyoukinenno10.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_China,_Kagoshima.svg
http://taira-k.air-nifty.com/blog/2011/12/index.html
(If I see well, the symbol should be black)
Tomislav Šipek, 29 March 2013

The town emblem was adopted on Jun 23rd 1956 but there is no flag law. The white flag has a dark blue town emblem in the center. The town emblem is stylized kanji 知名 China and a traditional Erabu lily flower. They say they don’t use a black but a dark blue flag.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 14 September & 21 October 2014

Thanks to Mr. Kariyasu, here is corrected flag.
Tomislav Šipek, 23 October 2014