Japan: Index of Pages

Cultural, Political, Economic flags

Last modified: 2025-05-03 by zachary harden
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by Antonio Martins

Topical groups on this page:

• Japan (general)
• Japanese Subdivisions
• Royalty flags
• Governmental flags
• Incorporated Administrative Agencies flags
• Historical flags - The Daimyo Era
• Historical flags - modern era
  • Ryukyu
  • Japanese flags in Korea
  • Japanese Puppet States of World War II
• Miscellaneous
  • Educational Institutions
  • Sporting flags
  • Scientific Institutions
  • Political Organizations/Movements
  • Corporate/Organizational

• Japanese Prefectures
• Municipal flags of Japan (Index by Prefectures)
• Municipal flags of Japan (Alphabetical Index Municipalities)

• Japanese Royalty Flags
• Imperial flags, 1870-1875 (Japan)
• Royal flags of Japan, circa 1876
• Flag of the Royal Family, circa 1876 (Japan)
• Flags of the Imperial Japanese Family (1899)
• Flags used at the Imperial Succession

• Prime Minister (Japan)
• Cabinent Ministries
  • Cabinet Office
    • National Public Safety Commission
    • National Police Agency
    • Consumer Affairs Agency
    • Financial Services Agency
    • Fair Trade Commission
    • Food Safety Commission
    • Imperial Household Agency
  • Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
    • Environmental Dispute Coordination Commission
    • Fire and Disaster Management Agency
  • Ministry of Justice
    • Immigration Bureau of Japan
    • Public Security Examination Commission
    • Public Security Intelligence Agency
    • Public Prosecutors Office
  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Reconstruction Agency (in response to the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake)
  • Ministry of Finance
    • Customs flags (Japan)
    • National Tax Agency
    • Ministry of State for Financial Services
  • Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
    • Agency for Cultural Affairs
    • Japan Sports Agency
  • Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare
    • Pension Service
    • Central Labour Relations Commission
  • Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
    • Fisheries Agency
    • Forestry Agency
  • Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)
    • Agency for Natural Resources and Energy
    • Small and Medium Enterprise Agency
    • Patent Office
  • Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT)
    • Japan Transport Safety Board
    • Japan Tourism Agency
    • Japan Meteorological Agency
    • Japan Coast Guard
  • Ministry of the Environment
    • Nuclear Regulation Authority
  • Ministry of Defense
    • National Security Council

• Minister of Defense (Japan)
  • Chief of the Joint Staff (Japan)
  • Chief of Staff of the Composite Forces
  • Rank flags of the Self-Defense Forces
• Air Self-Defense Force
• Ground Self-Defense Forces
• Marine Self-Defense Forces

• Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED)
• Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
• Japan Foundation
• Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
• National Institute of Special Education
• National Printing Bureau
• Northern Territories Issue Association
• Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA)

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• Historical flags of Japan
• Daimyo Flags, 15th - 17th century
• Kuni-Prefecture conversion
• Clickable map of Japan (historical: kuni)
• Daimyo Flags, 19th Century
• Naga-hata banner (Japan)
• Hasekura Rokuemon Tsunenaga

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• Arms storage unit
• Army Measurement Unit
• Army Service Flags - 1885
• Army Transport, 1870-1874 (Japan)
• Boshin Civil War 1868-1869
• Colonization Office 1869-1882
• First military hospital unit flags (Japan)
• Fisheries inspection vessels (Japan)
• Greater Japanese Aviation Youth Corps
• Harbor Police (Japan)
• Hokkaido area infantry (Japan)
• Imperial Japanese Army Medical Corps
• Imperial Japan National Defense Women's Association
• Japan: Z-Flag
• Japanese Merchant Ensign (1800s)
• Japanese Flags: Early Meiji Era
• Japanese military flags, 1874-1945
• Japanese Navy Flag 1944
• Japanese Naval Rank Flags (1870-1944)
• Japanese Postal Flags
• Japanese National Railways
• Japanese Service Flags, 1870s
• Japanese Service Flags, 1900s
• Japanese Service Flags, 1905
• Japanese Service Flags, early 1900s
• Japanese Service Flags
• Japanese Weather Flags
• Lifesaving Service (Japan)
• Lighthouse office (Japan)
• Maritime Guard Force, 1952-1954 (Japan)
• Maritime Safety Agency (Japan)
• Maritime Safety Agency rank flags (Japan)
• Maritime Self-Defense Force, 1954-1956 (Japan)
• Military Headquarters (Japan)
• Military personnel flags (Japan)
• Minister of Transport
• Ministerial flags used at sea (Japan)
• Ministry of Communications Maritime department vessels (Japan)
• Ministry of Public Works vessels (Japan)
• Miscellaneous service flags (Japan)
• National Infantry (Japan)
• Nautical flags, 1870-1871
• Naval Command Pennants, 1897-1945 (Japan)
• Naval flags, 1873-1882 (Japan)
• Naval Rank Flags, 19th century (Japan)
• Imperial navy rank flags, 1889-1896 (Japan)
• Naval Surveying (Japan)
• Navigation aids bureau (Japan)
• Osaka city port and harbor construction ships, 1916
• Patriotic Citizens Fighting Corps
• Pilot Flags (Japan)
• Police Commissioner
• Police flags (Japan)
• Postal Steamship Company Ensign (1872)
• Post World War II Ensigns (Japan)
• Powder (Japan)
• Quarantine Flags
• Radio Regulatory Committee
• Regimental flags, 1874-1945 (Japan)
• Reserve Battalions, 1874-1945 (Japan)
• Royal Cavalry ceremonial flag (Japan)
• Second military hospital unit flag (Japan)
• Second Reserve Infantry, First Battalion (Japan)
• South Pacific Agency
• Sword flag of Lt. General Akito Nakamura
• Underwater cable construction vessels (Japan)
• Unknown Woodprint Japanese Boat Flag from the Boxer Rebellion
• Volunteer Fleet Association (Japan)
• War Department Ships (Japan)
• Yokohama city fire defense
• National Safety Agency
  • National Safety Agency (Japan)
  • National Safety Agency - Rank Flags (Japan)
  • National Safety Agency (Japan): Command flags
  • National Safety Agency (Japan): Brigade command flags (1)
  • National Safety Agency (Japan): Brigade command flags (1)
  • Independent Communications Battalion (Japan)
  • Independent Hygene Battalion (Japan)
  • Battalion Safety Unit (Japan)
  • National Safety Agency - Second Regiment (Japan)
  • National Safety Agency - Independent Transport Battalion (Japan)
  • National Safety Agency - Group Flag (Japan)
  • National Safety Agency - Independent Scouting Company (Japan)
  • Logistics Command (Japan)
  • National Safety Force (Japan)
  • Second Division Army Command (Japan)

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• Ryukyu dynasty and Lu Chu Kingdom (Japan)
• Ryukyu Dynasty (Japan)
  • Ryukyu ensigns
  • Ryukyu customs ensign
  • Ryukyu Police flag
  • Ryukyu High Commissioner

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• Japanese Resident General of Korea, 1905-1910
• Japanese Lightship flag used in Korea
• Beacon Control vessels in Korea (Japan)
• Customs vessels used in Korea (Japan)
• Korean Mail Ship Company (Japanese rule)

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China
• Japanese Puppet States in China
• Japanese Invasion of China
• Nanjing Puppet State
• Manchukuo
• Manchukuo Rank flags
• Inner Mongolia (China)
• Japanese controlled transport companies (China)
Cambodia
• Cambodia - Japanese Occupation of World War II

Miscellaneous

• Educational Institutions
• High School Flags
• Academies
  • Japanese Fishery Academy
  • Japanese Vocational Training School
• Military Academies
  Army Schools
  • National Defense Academy
  • National Defense Medical Academy
  • Toyama Army School
  • Merchant Marine College
  • Maritime Safety Academy
• Universities (gallery)