'Symbol of the devil': Why South Korea wants Japan to ban the Rising Sun flag from the Tokyo Olympics
By Yoonjung Seo, Yoko Wakatsuki and Julia Hollingsworth, CNN
Updated 0502 GMT (1302 HKT) September 7, 2019
(CNN) — The organizers of Japan's 2020 Summer Olympics have refused to ban a controversial flag that South Koreans say stirs memories of the violent, brutal life endured under Japanese rule during the early to mid-1900s.
South Korea's parliamentary committee for sports wants the so-called Rising Sun flag to be banned from venues at next year's Tokyo Olympics as it is viewed in South Korea as a symbol of Japanese "imperialism and militarism."
