(If correct) about yesterday’s post on the Japanese Navy’s recruitment video. From a reader:

Hilarious clip. But did anyone notice that the Japanese flag in the video is the Imperial flag of the WWII era (the red beams radiating outward from the rising sun)?
The current Japanese flag, which dates from the postwar era is just a big red dot on a white background.
I mean, isn’t that analogous to a current commercial for the German navy using a flag from the Third Reich with a swastika on it?
Maybe they’re not as peace-loving and passive as those prancing midshipmen would have us believe…