TOKYO (Dec. 21, 2010) -- The Army's chief of staff was presented ... after having the Order of the Rising Sun badge pinned to his uniform. "Sixty-two years ago, my father was a lieutenant in ...

Iconography like the Army's skill-at-arms "cross rifles" badge or the solar-ray bayonets on the Rising Sun badge. While the banned symbols are fetishistic and in poor taste, these icons evince a ...