Japanese & Italian Activation Cards for A Leader of Men

I may certainly be mistaken, but I've never found any information that led me to belive their army flew a naval ensign.

The "rising sun" flag basically had two versions. One had the sun centered – that was the army version. One had the sun offset to one side (the hoist side) – that was the naval ensign.

The army did indeed use different sizes of flags, but the "meatball" was always centered. And both had 16 "rays" of the sun.

The naval ensign was used not just aboard ships, but by their land personnel. The Japanese "Navy" had plenty of troops – including the Special Naval Landing Force, and even tanks under their command.

The third flag most folks would know was the red sun centered in an all-white field. That was the national flag.

I'm not complaining about the flag on the cards, just wanted to point out the flag used was the naval ensign (used by naval ground forces) and not the army flag.