Shinjuku Ward (Tokyo, Japan)

新宿区

Last modified: 2023-06-03 by zachary harden
Keywords: shinjuku | ku | tokyo | kanji: shin |
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image by Tomislav Šipek, 24 June 2014

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The Flag

White coat-of-arms on dull blue field. Stylized Kanji character SHIN 新 in a diamond shape which has been long believed a symbol of steadiness. The coat-of-arms represents Shinjuku's will to steadily develop for the future. Coat of arms adopted 15 March 1967. Flag unlegislated.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 24 March 1999

For Shinjuku ward I found only purple flag.
Source: http://www.city.shinjuku.lg.jp/whatsnew/pub/2013/0330-01.HTML
Tomislav Šipek, 24 June 2014

Shinjyuku ward says there is no flag law yet but they use no more blue flag but only purple.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 26 June 2014

But they have done so in the past?
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 26 June 2014

Yes, they used a dull blue. I got their letter dated Jan 13th 1999 in which they wrote the color name.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 26 June 2014

Previously Reported Variant

by Pascal Gross, colors corrected 17 September 2006