They finally realized it’s just not Reich! Japan will stop using a swastika on maps for tourists after complaints the symbol was offending foreigners. The symbol in question is not a real swastika, ...

'On both sides of our cultural divide, it roused strong emotions that had very little to do with the language and its literature.' 'I felt Sanskrit had been removed from the realm of thought, and made ...

Swastikas could be erased from Japanese maps after a survey revealed that most tourists associate it with Nazi Germany instead of Buddhist temples. The ancient Sanskrit symbol was used to denote ...

On the left, the temple symbol currently used on Japanese-language maps, and on the right is the proposed new symbol for foreign-language maps A Japanese proposal to stop using swastikas to identify ...