[Today's Lisa Zate Topic] NZ flag? Or is it Australian? ??

From today's Australian news. It was found that the wrong national flag was used for nearly a month at ANZAC BRIDGE in NSW. Until now, no one had noticed that it had been fried on the bridge which capable of 180,000 cars. By the way,

Top NZ flag, bottom Australia flag

Opinion that the NZ flag emphasizes the existence that is still under Britain, symbolizing that it was still a colony using Union Jack, even though the departure from Britain began around 1970. Opinion on changing the national flag was made in 2015. These are the candidate flags that came out at that time.

After all, designs that symbolize Silver Fern and Maori native to NZ were nominated and decided by voters, but as a result, it was decided to continue using the original flag.

Australia, on the other hand, also uses the Union Jack, a symbol of British colonial history, and has seven stars from six states and one territory. The Australian flag has changed many times since around 1823, but the current flag has remained the same since 1909 and uses the same design. Despite the fact that Australia voted online and 64% should change due to the 2015 NZ flag change proposal, the importance of history was again emphasized and the Union Jack was chosen. Instead of erasing it, as a new country that started from there, the government actually used the same design as it did because the referendum was not held because it was limited to the online questionnaire method.

By the way, this is the Japanese flag.

The red circle indicates the sun, and it was not until 645 that the flag in the shape of the sun was used. In 607,an official correspondence that begun with "from the emperor of the rising sun" was sent to Chinese emperor. Japan is often referred to as "the land of the rising sun".(by wikipedia)

However, from the Meiji era to the Taisho and Showa eras, this flag was set as the national flag of the Army.

As an aside, the similarities between the NZ and Australian flags are likely to continue for some time.