As Leland is entering through the glass door to the NYK Line Agent's Office (to buy a steamer ticket), there is a nearly square flag painted on the door. The flag shown is a red circle with 10 rays extending from it to the edges in a sunburst pattern. This flag never existed. The appropriate ensign/flag for a non-military maritime organization such as Steamship Company in the immediate prewar period would have been the meatball* on a field of white, or the same as the nation's present flag. The nearest thing to what is shown is actually one with only eight rays flown by the "Japanese Ground Defense Force". It was the sunburst flag with sixteen rays that was widely used by the Japanese military (Army and Navy) throughout WWII - generally up to 1945.((*) The red circle used by the Japanese for both flags and aircraft roundels during this period was, in those days, uniformly referred to by all of the Allies (military and civilian alike) as "The Meatball".)
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