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Nonoichi City (Ishikawa prefecture, Japan)

野々市市

image by Tomislav Šipek, 29 May 2014

City flag
Flag Variants

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City flag

Nonoichi town adopted its emblem and flag on 15 June 1960. (link in Japanese)
Flag proportion: 2:3
colour of field: purple
colour of emblem : white
diameter of emblem: 3/5 flag height
A stylized hiragana Nono のの
Source: Town website (link in Japanese)
Nozomi Kariyasu, 18 January 2006

The two hiragana no の combine to form a circle with smaller circles just inside it at the right and left. They express the town's harmony and development/growth.
Jonathan Dixon, 23 February 2006

The flag of the city of Nonoichi is already reported by Mr. Ipavec, but I shortened image to 2:3 proporsion by description of Mr. Kariyasu. Also I found another shade of purple and maroon too (seems to me like these color).
Sources: https://www.city.nonoichi.lg.jp/sportsshinko/65th_kenmintaikai_toukikekka.html
http://www.kanazawa-it.ac.jp/kitnews/2013/1195410_3527.html
http://camellia.nono1.jp/?attachment_id=1829
maroon (?) = http://www.kobushi.jp/feature/2012/01/post.html
Tomislav Šipek, 29 May 2014

Yes, they seem to use a maroon flag as a variant but the law says the flag background color is purple.
Japanese purple color sample
A http://www.colordic.org/colorsample/2043.html
B http://www.colordic.org/colorsample/2035.html
The color of the flag photo from the website might be A.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 29 May 2014

Nonoichi Town becomes Nonoichi City on Nov 11th 2011. No change of the flag.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 20 October 2014

Flag Variants

image by Tomislav Šipek, 29 May 2014