In fact, we can see from the old photos of the Sino-Japanese War in 1894 that the Japanese army at that time did not have this habit of carving five-pointed stars, and there was nothing on their military hats. It was not until the Russo-Japanese War in 1904 that the Japanese army had a yellow five-pointed star on its hat.
In fact, the reason why they will do this, mainly from 1900, when Japan fully like the Western countries to learn, all their military combat methods have been copied, which imitate the Western countries on the military hat are engraved with a five-pointed star of a behavior, although they do not know what the use of carving a five-pointed star, but the Japanese emperor is to learn from the Western countries, eager to learn everything about them, so he issued his own Order No. 364, The content of the order is: on the military hat of the national army, whether it is a general or a pawn, all must be embroidered with a pentagram logo.
In the 19th century, most of the western armies had this symbol on their military hats, but in order to distinguish, their colors were different.
Some national armies use blue, some national armies use color, the Soviet Union in the early days, also used this five-pointed star logo, but they used red, after a period of use, there is no longer use.
Before that, the Japanese army's hat was still a kind of heavy battle helmet, although it was very bulky, but it could greatly increase its defense power, and during the Meiji Restoration, Japan directly abandoned its original system and system, and began to learn from the West in all aspects, including the military system.
Whether it is to completely imitate western countries in terms of military uniforms and weapons, or even Japan has changed its own combat system and method of training its army, it is completely in accordance with the way of Western countries to rectify its own army, and has thoroughly brought into play the natural and studious character of the Japanese.
We can often see in TV dramas that when the Japanese "devils" fight wars, they usually have two yellow "curtains" next to their hats, just like the color of their hats, in fact, this design method is also designed by copying the French hat style. However, the French army is fighting in the tropics all year round, and the role of these two curtains is mainly to resist the "attack" of mosquitoes, while the Japanese do not know it, and directly copy it.
The "five-pointed star" on the japanese army's military hat was renamed by them as "five-pointed star".
But Japanese people often do this kind of thing, learning what others say and then changing it slightly, and then becoming their own. Of course, the reason why they are called "pentagrams" is also for a reason, it is said that in Japan pentagram represents the meaning of cherry blossom petals, and cherry blossoms in Japan are the national flower, so the symbol on the hat of every Japanese soldier actually represents the country.
However, there is another way to say that the Japanese compare the pentagram to the light of the sun, and the Japanese army is to represent the sun to fight against other countries, although this statement sounds a bit funny, but Japan is such a country, their thinking makes ordinary people unable to understand. But regardless of the truth of the above statement, it is also an indisputable fact that the Japanese Army has been wearing a five-pointed star since 1900.
However, the Japanese army wearing a five-pointed star is only limited to the Japanese Army, and the Japanese Navy's military hat is not such a symbol, I have to say that this is related to the contradictions between them, because the Japanese Navy and the Army have always been very incompatible, but also very deep contradictions, they all look down on each other in the bottom of their hearts, but also dislike each other, can be said to be a pair of wrongdoers.
The pattern on the Japanese Navy's military hat is a very orthodox "cherry blossom" pattern, basically as long as it is used by the Army, they basically disdain to use it. Moreover, the officers of the Navy all have an indescribable sense of superiority; in their eyes, the Army has always been very stupid, and they have always only worn large brimmed hats and never wore boots, in order to distinguish them from the Japanese Army, and they despised to be with them, but they did not know that only the Army was the biggest reliance on Japan's invasion of China.
Later, the Japanese army even embroidered the five-pointed star on their combat flag, because this small pattern was too easy to use, not only could effectively represent their army, but also this pattern was very small and not easy to be found. Which, like the rising sun pattern they used before, is not only big and scary, but also a very red red pattern, which is too conspicuous and very easy to be the target of snipers.