Pilot Flags (Japan)

Last modified: 2007-02-10 by phil nelson
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by Jaume Ollé

The white flag with 4 blue rectangles at each corner is a flag of pilot call according to a Japanese flag book published in 1872.
Adopted: 29 November 29 1871
Abolished: 22 February 1882
Nozomi Kariyasu, 14 November 1999, 21 February 2000

Pilot Flag, circa 1917

by Phil Nelson

Source: National Geographic Magazine, October 1917

Adopted: 22 February 1882
Abolished 1940
Nozomi Kariyasu, 21 February 2000

Pilot Flag, circa 1924

by Phil Nelson

Source: Webster's New International Dictionary, circa 1924