Proper noun
Any of a number of places in the USA:
Rising Sun, Indiana: A city, the county seat of Ohio County, Indiana, also located in Randolph Township.
Rising Sun, Maryland
Rising Sun, Wisconsin
Rising Sun, Montana
(informal) The flag of Japan.
(history, metonymically) Imperial Japanese rule.
2006, Glusman, John, chapter 26, in Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941–1945, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, pages 464–5:Sixty years after the end of World War II, the thinning ranks of American ex-POWs have received neither compensation for their slave labor under the Rising Sun nor an apology from Japan.
Connery, left, stars as Capt. John Conner and Wesley Snipes stars as Web Smith in the 1993 police action film “Rising Sun.” Source: Internet
John J. Stephan, Hawaii Under the Rising Sun. Source: Internet
John Toland, Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1936–1945, page 669 Despite the bloody fighting and severe casualties on both sides, the Japanese defeat was assured from the start. Source: Internet
New Rising Sun: Leader O'Cola: The Dog Ate My Homework: Our current surge of cases literally started in the Dakotas and radiated from there. Source: Internet
And last year, Cho was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Japan’s most prestigious honor for foreign nationals. Source: Internet
Herbert F. Herrick, 87, of Dillsboro, Ind., (formerly of Rising Sun) passed away at 1:16 a.m., Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at Dearborn County Hospital in Lawrenceburg, Ind. Source: Internet