Sakai City [Osaka prefecture Japan]

堺市

Last modified: 2014-09-06 by zoltán horváth
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image by Arnaud Leroy, 2 May 2007
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• City Flag
• Mihara

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City Flag

The city emblem was adopted on Jun 17th 1895 by Notice No 19 but there is no flag law. The white flag has a blue city emblem in the center. The city emblem is three stylized kanji 市 Shi=city. The city name Sakai means a border of three cities. namely the former Settsu, Izumi and Kawachi. The emblem is a combination of three letters of 市.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 24 May 2014

Mihara Town / 美原町

image by Tomislav Šipek, 06 February 2014

The flag of the former town of Mihara was purple with mark. The town is now, from 2005, part of the city of Sakai.
Source: http://www.city.sakai.lg.jp/shisei/gyosei/chihobunkoiki/seirei/kyogikai/jokyo/choin.html
Tomislav Šipek, 06 February 2014