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![[flag of Shirataka]](../images/j/jp-06-sk.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 11 February 2006
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Shirataka town adopted its emblem on 28 September 1959; adoption date of flag: 25 March 2005 (pages in Japanese
Flag proportion: 2:3; colour of field: green.
Colour of emblem: white emblem with black fimbriation and the black-F with white; diameter of emblem:
3/5 flag height. The emblem is a flying white hawk = Shirataka 白鷹.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 3 February 2006
The flag's adoption came into force on 1 April 2004. The field colour is given according to JIS Z8721: hue 4.5BG, brightness 3.3, saturation 5.9.
The emblem is described as an abstraction, but I have admit that I don't
see the hawk at all.
Jonathan Dixon, 11 May 2006