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Hikone City [Shiga prefecture Japan]

彦根市

Last modified: 2014-05-12 by zoltán horváth
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[Konan city flag]
image by Tomislav Šipek, 04 March 2014

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The flag of the city of Hikone is green with mark.
Source: http://tujimariko.jugem.jp/?eid=1333255
Tomislav Šipek, 04 March 2014

The city emblem was adopted on Apr 11th 1938 but there is no flag law. The green flag has a white city emblem in the center. The city emblem is a stylized katakana ヒコネ Hikone in a form of a tortoiseshell which is a symbol of Mt.Kinkou (gold tortoise) in the central city.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 12 May 2014