The Japanese Maritime Flag for Seven has two diagonals and two triangular ends and consists of three colours: red, yellow, and blue. In the upper hoist corner is the red triangle and in the lower fly is a yellow triangle. In between these corners are two stripes is a yellow then blue stripe. All the divisions follow a dexter bend, with the blue bend separating the two yellow parts.
The Japanese do not have short or odd vowels, so when saying words in 'English-Latin' script the letters are pronounced phonetically. Forexample, the word Nana なな both Na's are the same. English has tendency to make each vowels sound different as in the word Banana (as the middle a has a different a sound, unless you area Minion from Dreamworks).
Several days after scouring the internet a real flag of the unique Japanese Auxiliary Naval signal number flag was found. After going to Yahoo! instead of Google, was I able to find this artifact. And it is for sale; apparently it was used in combat during WWII.
Here is a close up of the tag, that indicates it is indeed an Imperial Japanese Navy Signal flag. There is red ink that has Japanese Kanji upon it with other symbols that are hard to decipher.
Source of Image
http://www.wwiidaggers.com/33997.htm
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