The Japanese flag is a too-scale map of the solar system.

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The Japanese flag is a pie chart of how much of Japan is in Japan.

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  • sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is this why the imperial Japanese flag had so much red outside the circle?

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    • pipe01@programming.dev ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well there’s your problem, your insides are outside and your outsides are inside!

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• glibg@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Image

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• circuitfarmer@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Land of the rising sun”

  Looks at flag

  No land

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  • hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s just out of frame

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• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So the Japanese empire was just an attempt to fit the rest of the solar system on their flag?

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• Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Best kind of correct.

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