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Word: risingsun (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...particularly suspicious when Movie Actor Mitsuyasu Maeno appeared at Tokyo's Chofu Airport last week in a World War II kamikaze pilot's uniform, complete with white scarf and with risingsun flags emblazoned on his right sleeve and on his warrior's headband. As he rented a single-engine Piper Cherokee from a local flying club, he explained that he was merely doing a publicity turn for a new film on the 1944-45 suicide pilots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Kamikaze Over Tokyo | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

...potatoes and picking bananas off the trees. "My commanding officer told me to fight it out," he explained. Last month he was spotted by a Morotai native, who alerted Indonesian authorities. Four airmen lured the naked Nakamura out of hiding by singing the Japanese national anthem and waving the risingsun flag. Then they pounced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Last Last Soldier? | 1/13/1975 | See Source »

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