Saga (Japan)

White camphor tree flower with red stamen on dark green colour field. Camphor tree is the prefecture tree. White stands for sincerity and passion, dark green for hope and peace. Adopted 11 December 1968.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 6 May 1998

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Green flag with white flower with six petals and orange <what?>. Proportions 2:3.
This flag is in Smith 1980 marked as civil and state flag on land.
Željko Heimer, 8 December 1996

The Saga Prefecture Police flag was adopted on Jan 1st 1984 by Saga Prefecture Police Headquarters Orders No 1.

The purple flag has gold fringe charged with a gold sun and rays surrounded by prefecture flower, a white camphor flower, its name in white bottom.

The flag proportions are 17:25

Nozomi Kariyasu, 10 October 2009

From combined information from the official city website and Wikipedia

Situated in the northwest of Saga Prefecture, Kyushu, Karatsu City is a castle town blessed with a variety of beautiful, natural scenery ranging from sea vistas to rivers and mountainscapes.

“Karatsu” derives from the location’s attributes as an ideal tsu (port) for passage to Kara (the ancient title for Korea and China). As the name indicates, Karatsu has been open to the world outside Japan since ancient times.

The city has area of 487 km2 and a apopulation of 129,329.

Interesting that this city has two flags.
Valentin Poposki, 25 January 2008

Editorial note: the city flag image on the city website differs slightly from the image from Toshi no hata to monshou

The city flag was adopted on Apr 30 2006 by the Prefecture Notice No 97.

The yellow flag charged with green and blue city emblem in the center.

The flag proportion 2:3

The yellow expresses that solar power lights up Saga city and a new city is full of hopes to rise energetically. The stylized S of Saga symbolizes contact with a person and other person. The two discs represent personality to overflow and wisdom to grow up. The blue stands for sky and green for earth and rich nature of Saga city.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 19 October 2009