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You think that's bad, check out some of the municipal flags in Japan, especially the ones designed in the early 2000s. The ones based on old clan symbols are fine, but those other ones look like some corpo bro from the 90s commissioned designs by saying "I want it to have more radical swoosh vibes!"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_municipal_flags_of_T%C5%8Dhoku_region
Hirosaki not changing theirs is… interesting.
I guess Buddhism is still common enough in Asia that WWII didn't completely ruin the manji. You still see temples marked on maps with it these days.
Some of those must have been straight up inspirations for Star Wars. Looking at you Hachinoche and Kamikita.
Those ones are probably based on historic clan emblems
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mon_(emblem)
Still better than the state seal on a flag
I see Star Wars, the Klingons, a mirrored Swastika, Harry Potter, and a few others in there.
This one makes me think of an airline.
That's funny because that place is pretty deep in the boonies, about a 2 hr drive from the nearest airport.