Originally Posted by Mystère

Nowadays most model kits coming from Japan don't have these markings (at least in their "full form", sometimes you can find them on decals, but in several parts). Maybe you never paid attention, but every picture of a DW WWII era German aircraft is without them (don't know about models themselves, I guess they don't sport them either). Even in France it's illegal : my father, who used to collect military swords and knives, told me that $$ daggers, which sported a swastika, had it to be hidden with a sticker, or even couldn't be shown at all, depending upon the policemen mood while they visited the show before its opening...