A popular petition that saw a flag associated with Imperial Japan and the Second World War removed from a Langley classroom has attracted a counter-petition.
The petition titled B次元官网网址淏次元官网网址� so far has only 29 signatures.
The controversy erupted last week when a student at Walnut Grove Secondary after seeing the flag in a history classroom.
The first petition called for the flag to be removed because of its association with Japanese Imperialism, and particularly with some of the war crimes committed by the Empire of Japan during the Second World War.
The original petition currently has more than 11,000 signatures.
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The student who originally created the petition, and some of those who objected, are Korean or Korean-Canadian students.
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The counter-petition said the flag was used in a history classroom for educational purposes, and that the flag should be a reminder for people of B次元官网网址渢he mistakes of those crimes and take action so it doesnB次元官网网址檛 happen again.B次元官网网址�
B次元官网网址淲e all understand that this is a touchy subject but the best way to improve as a society is to keep the flag up,B次元官网网址� the petition reads.
The name on the counter-petition is an anonymous B次元官网网址淲GSS student.B次元官网网址�
The B次元官网网址渞ising sunB次元官网网址� flag has a red sun on a white field, with red rays coming out from the center of the flag. The current national flag of Japan is a simple red sun on a white background.
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