I bought this by 3,300 yen although its price tag said 6,600 yen.
I visited USA in my graduation trip (just before graduading Kyoto Univ). In USA, it was easy to buy it. [1991/03,155x92cm]
My sister bought it for me when she stayed there. [199x,150x90cm]
Mr.Gotoh , who is my friend since high-school, bought it when he went sightseeing in the west coast of Australia. [199x,140x67cm]
Before Hongkong was returned to China, I visited there. It was quite difficult to buy it. The hotel's concierge tought me a flag factory shop where the hotel usually buys their flags. The shop was very far and was located in a complicated, not new, traditional ^_^ building. [1993,190x123cm]
When I visited Italy, the world cup'94 was being held and shops on streets sold flags :-) [1994,140x75cm]
Mr.Tsuda in my lab bought it when he went there to attend an academic conference. [1995/08,145x83cm]
I bought it when I attended an academic conference (ACCV'95). It was also hard to get big flags in singapore. When I asked the hotel's concierge a place where I could buy a big flag, they misunderstood that I want to buy 'flower', not 'flag'... Yes, it's true my speaking skill is quite poor. [1995/12,155x90cm]
Mr.Tsuda bought it. He couldn't find it in souvenior shops, but found it in a stationary store. [199x,100x67cm]
My mother purchased it when she visited north Europe. [199x,88x62cm]
In China, the flags are under control of the government and visitors can not buy flags *_*; My mother explained to her guide why she wanted a flag, then he made a promise to send it to Japan later. He kept his promise, but how he could get it ? That is the mystery. [1996/01,63x40cm]
My mother also visited orient countries. [199x,150x97cm]
My mother's friend lived in Nepal for several years and she visited there. [199x,125x190cm]
When my mother visited Nepal at the 2nd time, she went Bhutan too. [199x,88x60cm]
Prof. Minoh bought it for me in summer, 1996. [1996/07,120x75cm]
Ms. Watanabe bought it for me in August 1997. She spends a couple of weeks in southern France every year. [1997/09,140x95cm]
My collegue Tsuda bought it for me when he attended ICDAR'97. [1997/08,150x85cm]
My mother bought it for me in 1997. [199x,130x86cm]
Mr Zahooruddin, who finished the graduate school of Engineering on March 1997, sent me this flag after he went back to his home country, Pakistan. [1998,100x57cm]
Mr. Tsuda bought it for me when he went sightseeing to Philippines to visit his friend Mr. Naval. [1998/03,68x41cm]
My mother visited England and Scotland in June 1998. [1998/06,90x60cm]
Ms. Watanabe's souvenior of her summer vacation. [1998/09,80x75cm]
My mother visited Rain Forest state in Australia.[1998/10] [1998/10,175x120cm]
My mother brought it to me. [199?/??,195x115cm]
Yoshiuchi, who is a member of our lab, went there to attend an academic conference. [199?/??,90x57cm]
My mother brought it to me. [1999/??,175x83cm]
My mother brought it. Where is Sabah ? [1999/??,170x80cm]
I attended ICMCS'99. [1999/06]
My mother brought it to me. [1999/??]
Kentaro, a member of our lab, brought it to me. [1999/08,90x60cm]
Ms. Watanabe brought it to me. It seems it is very hard to get it there because many of my friends failed in getting it. [1999/09,92x94cm]
After an academic conference, we went sightseeing by taxi around Taejon. Our taxi driver got into a city hall and brought me the Korean flag. As he could not speak English, I asked a hotel concierge to translate my request into Korean beforehand. With a gold ball and a hoist. [1999/10,90x60cm]
Prof. Miyazaki, my colleague in Kyoto Univ, brought it to me on his way to attend an international conference. [1999/xx,70x50cm]
My mother went to Syria but she couldn't get one. What she could got was a plastic small flag. I hope to see someone who will go to Syria soon... [200x,47x30cm]
My mother brought it to me. It was very hard... [2000/xx,120x80cm]
My mother brought it to me. [2000/xx,90x75cm]
I collect only national flags because there are so many local flags around the world. But, when I was in LAX, I was so bored on waiting my flight, and ... I happened to get California flag. What should I do from now? [2000/02,150x90cm]
Hagihara, a member of our lab, brought it to me. [2000/02,150x93cm]
Miss Kawamoto, our lab's former secretary, brought it to me. She became Mrs. Maeda just before the tour. [2000/06/14,55x32cm]
I went to UN head quater on the way to ICME2000. BUT, when I got there, there were no flags on the poles... Why? I was so sad. [2000/08,250x150cm]
My friend of my high school days lives in Indonesia now and I asked her to send me a flag from there. [2000/08,115x75cm]
Iiyama, one of my students, gave a presentation in ICPR2000 and he brought it to me. [2000/09,150x100cm]
I got it when I went there on our honeymoon. [2000/10,150x90cm]
A friend of Ms. Watanabe brought it to me. Now I've reached nations on all the continents! [2001/03,60x40cm]
My wife's cousin enjoyed visiting there before she graduated. [2001/02,150x90cm]
My wife's cousin enjoyed visiting there before she graduated. [2001/02,155x88cm]
My father went there to visit the exhibition of a Japanese artist. [2001/08,75x37cm]
My mother went there with My aunt for sightseeing. [2001/09,140x92cm]
Tomek, my colleague in our lab, got it for me, as he is Polish. [2002/11,117x70cm]
My mother visited there to see Angkor Wat. [2003/10]
An Israeli saw this page and sent me a big and nice Israeli flag. Thanks, Eli! [2004/06,155x110cm]
I got a Taiwanese flag when I attended ICME2004. My hotel's staff didn't know where to buy flags, but a concierge of the grand hotel told me the location of a flag maker in a couple of minutes. How nice they are... [2004/06,147x96cm]
My mother stayed Ireland for 13(!) days for sightseeing. There should be thousands of things to see... [2004/06,150x90cm]
I happened to get acquinted with Mr. Lawitzky, a Bavarian, by my photoes on my web site. He is so kind and respectful that he sent me a pretty good DVD produced by themselves and this nice flag. [2004/10,150x90cm]
My mother purchased it on her way to the continent that has no national flag. [2005/03,158x85cm]
ICME2005 was held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. I went there and was impressed by not only the talks in the conference but also the beautiful canals and wind mills up there. [2005/07,132x80cm]
Tamura-san, My wife's friend's husband, got this flag when he was on his business trip. I heard it was really inexpensive, but yet it is nice size. Thanks! [2005/09,147x100cm]
My mother went to Papua New Guinea for diving into the beautiful sea. The design of the flag is also nice, isn't it? [2005/12,152x87cm]
ACCV2006 was held in the 2nd IT city, Hyderabad, India. It was not easy to find a shop which sells flags because what I could obtain was a name of the district (ABIDS). I got a very expensive one (680 Rupees) this time as this is my second indian flag. [2006/01,140x90cm]
My mother brought it to me instead of the national flag of Micronesia. It was very hard to get the national flag there. [2006/04,???x??cm]