Japan offers to solve 'Union Jack problem' By Richard Holt Last Updated: 1:59am GMT 01/12/2007
Japanese readers have made an unlikely intervention into the Britishness debate by offering to help solve the row over the future of the Union Jack. Have your say: Should the Union Jack be changed? Email your designs for a new Union flag In pictures: Telegraph readers' designs for the flag Earlier this week a Labour MP called for the Union flag to be redesigned to include the Welsh Dragon. Some designs were comic, others would have a somewhat limited shelf-life. Click to see more Following an invitation for Telegraph readers to submit their designs, a broad range of interesting suggestions were sent in. At first most of the readers' flags were sent from within the UK, but then a Japanese website offered to help. "We heard the news of the Union Jack problem," they wrote. "We believe that our new ideas will help." (イカソースにて) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2007/11/27/flags/flag18.gif http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=M0QNR0IKKNUJVQFIQMGSFF4AVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2007/11/30/nflag130.xml